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| Israeli Arab from Be'er Sheva area operated by Hamas was arrested after planning a bombing attack in a shopping center | |
| 2020-09-08 | |
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...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip. Mahmoud Makdad, 30, from the Bedouin town of Shaqib al-Salam (known in Hebrew as Segev Shalom) in the south of the country was arrested on August 15, the service said in a statement. Nine of his family members and acquaintances were also arrested, including his brother Ahmad, 32. Most of the suspects are residents of Segev Shalom and are suspected of knowing about his plans and doing nothing, and in some cases helping to plan the attack. The statement said indictments on serious security offenses would be filed against Mahmoud and Ahmad at the Beersheba District Court. The son of an Israeli Bedouin mother and a father from the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Makdad is married to a Paleostinian in the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave. His circumstances allowed him to move back and forth between Israel and Gaza under humanitarian programs that Israel grants, enabling the unification of families divided by the border. His parents were similarly able to be together due to the programs, the Shin Bet said. Hamas was hoping to make use of Makdad’s ability to move between the Gaza Strip and Israel, the statement said.. "This is further evidence of the efforts that the military wing of Hamas is investing in establishing a terror infrastructure in Israel, as part of its systematic and broad activities against Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] and Israel," a senior Shin Bet official, not named, said in the statement. It "testifies to the strategy that the Hamas leadership continues to lead of upsetting regional stability. This, despite and alongside the efforts for agreement that are going on all the time," he added, referring to ongoing mediation efforts between Israel and the terror group through various international parties. According to the Shin Bet, Makdad agreed to work for Hamas in 2019. He was initially recruited to gather intelligence on sites in the southern Negev region of Israel, and then later to carry out kabooms. Makdad began collecting intelligence, including providing information on the locations of Iron Dome anti-missile system batteries that Israel deploys to protect itself against rocket attacks from Gaza. In recent months Makdad spent time in the Gaza Strip and before his latest return to Israel underwent training by Hamas on assembling improvised explosives, Sherlocks alleged. Since returning to Israel in June 2020 he bought ammunition and began constructing a bomb, the statement said. He also began scouting out a location to carry out the bombing while maintaining covert contact with his handlers in the Gaza Strip, Makdad eventually chose as his target a bus stop at the Bilu Junction, a busy site in the central region of the country, near Rehovot, that includes a large shopping mall. His brother Ahmad was fully aware of his contact with Hamas and his intention to carry out an attack and did not take any action to prevent the bombing from happening, the statement said. Ahmad Makdad is also suspected of helping in the surveillance of Iron Dome sites. | |
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