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| Captured Hamas Operative Reveals Paragliding Attack Plan |
| 2014-07-31 |
| [IsraelTimes] A highly trained Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, operative captured by the IDF during the campaign in the Gazoo Strip told Sherlocks that he had prepared to carry out a terror attack against Israeli civilians using a paraglider, the Shin Bet security service announced Wednesday. The Hamas detainee, who was recruited to the Islamist terror group in 2007 and joined one of the group's special units in 2010, had taken part in a weeklong military-style exercise in Malaysia, along with 10 other members of the group, the Shin Bet said in a statement. During the exercise, which included paragliding training, the Hamas squad focused on perfecting raids from the air. The squad conducted a second training session in the Gazoo Strip earlier this year, the statement said. The Hamas operative was tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! near the Paleostinian city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gazoo Strip, on the night between July 21 and July 22. A second Hamas operative held in Israeli captivity told Sherlocks that after the IDF began striking targets in Gazoo, he received orders to enter an underground tunnel and await for further commands, Walla reported. For weeks, the operative said, he survived only on dates and water, which were brought to him by two fellow Hamas members. On the third week of the Israeli offensive, after receiving no orders, the operative, a member of Hamas's elite Nukhba unit, exited the tunnel and surrendered to IDF soldiers in the area. Since launching a ground operation in the Hamas-controlled enclave on July 17, the IDF has apprehended close to 100 operatives, mostly members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... . Soldiers also seized hundreds of computers, maps, and communication devices, as well as weapons. During searches in the Strip, Israeli troops also uncovered booklets with information on various IDF units, military commanders, and the Gazoo border area in general. One of the booklets contained images of IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, Channel 10 reported. Paleostinian sources said that at least 76 people were killed Wednesday in Israeli strikes across Gazoo, raising the Paleostinian corpse count above 1,300 since the IDF first started operating in the Strip. Israel asserts that hundreds of those killed throughout the operation were Hamas or Islamic Jihad fighters. |
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