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2022-02-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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IDF, police seize 12 rifles from gun smugglers in Jordan Valley
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[IsraelTimes] Cops arrest 3 suspects; guns were likely set to be sold to Arab Israelis for criminal purposes; 4 firearms also confiscated in West Bank in overnight raids
Israeli security forces arrested three people suspected of smuggling guns into Israel from Jordan Friday morning, confiscating several rifles in the process, the military and police said.
According to the IDF, 10 AK-47 rifles, magazines and ammunition were found inside two vehicles near the main highway running along Israel’s long border with Jordan.
Soldiers operating surveillance cameras spotted the two suspicious vehicles near the border fence on the Route 90 highway, and after a chase on the roads near Beit She’an the smugglers were arrested, police said.
Law enforcement officials said the suspects were men in their 20s and 30s, from the southern Israel Bedouin village of Tirabin and a Paleostinian town in the south Hebron Hills area of the West Bank.
Police indicated that the guns were likely to have been sold to Arab Israelis, and estimated the value of the guns at some NIS 800,000 ($245,000).
"This confiscation is another success for the Northern District Police in finding sources of illegal weapons for the Arab community, while eliminating smuggling routes and the trade through them," police said in a statement.
The IDF has stepped up efforts to halt smuggling attempts along the Jordanian border in recent months, but officials have admitted that the military has seen limited success thus far.
Last Friday some 50 firearms apparently smuggled over the Jordan border were seized, and last month four people suspected of smuggling guns from Jordan were arrested by security forces, who confiscated dozens of firearms in the process.
Separately overnight Thursday, police seized two M-16 rifles and two hunting rifles during raids in Hebron and the West Bank town of Bayt Sahur, respectively.
Police said three suspects were arrested.
Authorities have increasingly sought to crack down on the unmitigated spread of illegal weapons in the Arab Israeli community, which have been used to carry out record-breaking numbers of murders in recent years.
According to the Abraham Initiatives, a non-government group lobbying against violence in the Arab community, 125 Arabs — an all-time record — were killed in Israel in 2021 as a result of violence and crime. Since the beginning of this year, another 14 have been killed in incidents of violent mostly peaceful crime. 
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