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| Hamas, Islamic Jihad said to offer $200 per shooting attack, if video posted |
| 2022-09-16 |
| [IsraelTimes] Terror groups reportedly aiming to encourage copycat incidents in an effort to ramp up violence in the West Bank Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem 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... terror groups are reportedly offering cash incentives for shooting attacks on Israelis, on condition that a video of the assault is published on social media. The two groups are offering about $200 for a shooting in an effort to encourage more attacks, in particular as Israel enters its three-week High Holiday period, which begins with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, next week, Channel 12 news reported on Tuesday. Videos must be published on the TikTok video sharing application in order to qualify for a payout, according to the report. The West Bank has seen a spate of shootings in recent months, mostly targeting Israel Defense Forces soldiers. An officer in the IDF was killed early Wednesday in a shootout in the northern West Bank, near the spot where a day earlier button men shot up a Defense Ministry engineering machine. A heavily edited video circulated on Paleostinian social media claimed to show the moment of the Tuesday attack by members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade terror group. The footage could not be independently verified to have been from the incident. Security officials are concerned that videos of shooting attacks will create so-called "internet heroes" encouraging others to follow their example, according to Channel 12. Alongside arrest operations in the West Bank to thwart potential attacks, security forces are also aiming to stem the flow of cash that is used to finance or encourage attacks, according to the report. The head of IDF Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, warned Tuesday that terror groups were striving to encourage copycat attacks in the West Bank. "The holiday period is always sensitive," Haliva said at a conference at Herzliya’s Reichman University. "So I need to assume as a working assumption that there is a possibility of escalation." Haliva stressed it was only an assumption, not a certain prediction. The shootings came as tensions have spiked in the region in recent weeks with Israeli forces ratcheting up arrest raids and other counterterror efforts, which Paleostinians say have inflamed anger. Israeli troops have repeatedly come under gunfire during nightly raids in the West Bank. The military launched the operation after a series of deadly attacks that killed 19 people between mid-March and the beginning of May. More than 2,000 suspects have been detained since the beginning of the year, according to the Shin Bet security agency. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Falafel with cranberry sauce And a peaceful New Year for the boss. [Will pay on demand the amount of two grand for each verified loss of Hamas.] |
| Posted by: Blossom Omomonter3010 2022-09-16 19:27 |