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PA security raids Hamas cell planning attacks against Israelis
[IsraelTimes] Terror operatives in Hebron being directed from Gazoo by ‘bureau’ of former West Bankers exiled as part of Shalit exchangeThe Paleostinian security services in recent weeks uncovered a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, cell in Hebron planning terror attacks against Israel including shootings and kidnappings, senior Paleostinian officials told the Times of Israel. The first arrests were made by Paleostinian intelligence units several weeks ago and since then there have a number of further arrests of Hamas operatives in the West Bank city. Israeli sources confirmed the arrests. The Hebron cell was operated by the terror group’s so-called West Bank bureau, which is situated in Gazoo but overseen by Hamas operatives originally from the West Bank and deported to Gazoo as part of the prisoner exchange for captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011. The bureau is headed by Abd el-Rahman Ghanimat and Mazen Fuqha. Ghanimat was formerly a member of the notorious "Surif squad" -- a terrorist cell headed by Ibrahim Ghanimat responsible for a series of attacks against Israelis in the 1990s. Abd el-Rahman Ghanimat was serving five life sentences when he was released under the Shalit deal. Since the first arrests were made, Hamas media outlets have reported that Paleostinian Authority security forces have each week tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a few activists who identify with Hamas. In one incident a Hamas-affiliated student and member of the student union of the Paleostine Polytechnic University Was arrested at the entrance to the campus. The West Bank bureau is thought to be responsible for all Hamas attacks in the West Bank, with a number of cells aside from the Hebron group raided by PA security. Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas commander exiled to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and now living in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , has directed several attempts to carry out attacks and is even pushing for the establishment of an infrastructure to carry out suicide kabooms. The recent discovery of a bomb-making factory in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis is just one example of these efforts. The group has also been accused of using Paleostinian residents of Gazoo who hold permits entitling them to travel to the non contiguous West Bank as couriers to transfer money to fund attacks. Though Arouri has left Istanbul, Israeli defense officials say a Hamas presence in the city similar to the West Bank Bureau continues to direct attacks against Israelis. In February, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Turkey was allowing them to continue operating, and said it could hold up any possible detente between Jerusalem and Ankara. "The Turks support Hamas, and this needs to be discussed," he said. "I am not sure that it will be possible to reach an arrangement of relations with Turkey." Posted by: trailing wife 2016-03-09 |
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