The Shin Bet security agency on Thursday announced that it had foiled a Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...plot to smuggle weapons and money into the West Bank using Israeli citizens.
In a statement, the Shin Bet said that in recent weeks, several Israelis from the central Arab town of Kafr Qasim and the southern Bedouin city of Rahat were arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in "covert" transfers of weapons and funds to the West Bank, on behalf of Ahmad Zarzur, an Israeli citizen living in
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
member, but not the most reliable...
who was operating on behalf of the Hamas terror group.
The agency said its investigation revealed a network that operated to smuggle weapons and hundreds of thousands of shekels into the West Bank, "with concerns that these would ultimately reach terror operatives to advance attacks."
Zarzur, originally from Kafr Qasim, "exploited his family and social ties" in the northern Arab city to establish the smuggling network, the Shin Bet said.
The agency said that the network would operate by transferring cryptocurrency from Turkey to Israel, which was then converted to cash using Israeli money changers.
The cash would be used to purchase weapons from arms dealers in the Negev area, which were then smuggled into the West Bank, it said.
Indictments are set to be filed against several suspects in the case, the agency said.
"This is a grave case that exposes how elements in Turkey, including Arab Israelis and citizens [naturalized] through family reunification, exploit their connections in Israel and their access to Judea and Samaria to transfer funds and weapons that may eventually reach terror operatives," the Shin Bet added, using the Biblical name for the West Bank.
Turkey has long had close ties with Hamas, and it hosts officials from the terror group in the country. Jerusalem has pressed Ankara to crack down on Hamas’s activity in Turkey, arguing that 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with 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...
-based Paleostinian terror group uses its representatives there to orchestrate terror attacks against Israelis.
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