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| Gazan laborer arrested while planning to bomb bus in southern Israel, Shin Bet says |
| 2022-11-25 |
| [IsraelTimes] Fathi Ziad Zakot, who had permit to enter Israel, sought to carry out attack on behalf of 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... ; he was detained last month with bomb-making equipment. Israeli security forces arrested a Paleostinian man from the Gazoo ...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 last month, suspecting him of planning a bombing attack on a bus in southern Israel on behalf of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad terror group, the Shin Bet security service said Thursday. The agency said that Fathi Ziad Zakot, 31, from the southern Gazook city of Rafah, had a valid permit to enter Israel for work. He was arrested on October 30 and an indictment was filed on Thursday at the Beersheba District Court, whereupon the Shin Bet released information about the case. According to the Shin Bet, Zakot was recruited by a member of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad sometime in September, and later underwent training by an explosives expert who taught him how to build a bomb. Zakot entered Israel several times while remaining in contact with members of the terror group. After entering on October 19, Zakot obtained wires, batteries and other materials used to build an bomb, according to the indictment. The Shin Bet said the materials were seized when Zakot was arrested. Zakot was charged with various weapons offenses, belonging to a terrorist organization, planning and training for an act of terrorism, and contact with a foreign agent, among several more charges. The indictment comes amid an ongoing debate in Israel about allowing large numbers of Paleostinians from the Gaza Strip into Israel to work, a move that the army has historically supported as a stabilizing measure by boosting the Gazook economy, and the Shin Bet has generally opposed, fearing that it would be abused by Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, or other terror groups to carry out and coordinate attacks against Israeli targets. Israel recently raised the quota of work permits for Gazook Paleostinians to 17,000, expanding a policy that defense officials view as a means of maintaining quiet on the country’s southern front. "Israel will not allow the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip to exploit the civilian channel to advance terror attacks, and will act against these attempts with severity while viewing Hamas [which governs Gaza] as the responsible party," a Shin Bet official said. In response to the attempted bombing, Israel’s military liaison to the Paleostinians, known by its acronym COGAT, revoked some 200 permits from Paleostinians with ties to Zakot. "The findings of the investigation illustrate once again that the terrorist elements in the Gaza Strip are investing a lot of effort in establishing terrorist infrastructures that undermine regional stability, including taking advantage of work permits issued by Israel for the purpose of advancing military activity," the Shin Bet said. Defense Minister Benny Gantz said terror groups were taking advantage of the work permits. "The attempt by terrorist organizations to take advantage of the employment of laborers in Israel for the purpose of attacks endangers the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of residents in the Gaza Strip," he said. |
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