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Islamic Jihad plotted to blow up Israeli wedding hall, kidnap IDF soldier
[Jpost] Four men indicted for planning attacks under the instruction of a senior Islamic Jihad official in Gazoo.Security services announced on Thursday that they had thwarted an 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... plot to attack a wedding hall in the South and to kidnap and kill a soldier for the purposes of bargaining with Israel. Mahmoud Yusef Hassin Abu Taha, a resident of Khan Yunis in the southern Gazoo Strip, was tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! last month while entering Israel through the Erez crossing, ostensibly for purposes of commerce. Abu Taha was enlisted by Wael Sufian Abu Taha, a senior Islamic Jihad official in Gazoo, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said. He instructed Mahmoud to form a cell in order to carry out a terrorist attack in the South and to kidnap a soldier to be used in a prisoner swap, the agency said. The three men whom Mahmoud enlisted to help him with the attacks were also arrested. One of the suspects, Shafik Hamed Ahmed Abu Taha, 55, was illegally residing in Israel and was an employee of the wedding hall that the cell planned to attack. A second suspect, Ahmed Tisir Abdulrahman Abu Taha, 39, from Gazoo, was also illegally residing in Israel. A third suspect, a 40-year-old from Deir el-Balah in central Gazoo, was living in southern Israel legally after having gained residency through marriage by way of the "family reunification" law. The suspects had carried out reconnaissance at the wedding hall, devising a plan they hoped would kill as many people as possible, the Shin Bet said. At the same time, Mahmoud began planning the kidnapping, receiving thousands of shekels from Wael Abu Taha in order to rent an apartment in Israel to which he planned to lure a soldier. According to the Shin Bet, Mahmoud planned to kill the soldier, bury him and send his belongings back to Gazoo to use as bargaining chips with Israel. "This grave affair yet again exhibits the efforts of terrorist elements in Gazoo to carry out murderous terrorist attacks in Israel," the agency said. The affair also shows the way in which In addition, the plot shows the danger posed by Paleostinians illegally residing in Israel, the agency warned. In May, Islamic Jihad in Gazoo released a propaganda video threatening IDF soldiers in response to the recent "Israeli escalation" in the Strip. The minute-and-a-half video, titled, "We Will Show You a Shadow of Fear," presents four fighters in Islamic Jihad’s Quds Brigades conducting observation of IDF jeep stationed behind Israel’s border with the Gazoo Strip and preparing to fired Sager rockets at the vehicle. Although the fighters did not attack the jeep, the video ends with a message translated to Hebrew: "We will show you a shadow of fear." Interior minister to revoke residency of 3rd wedding hall plotter [IsraelTimes] Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announced Thursday that he will revoke the residency permit of a Gazoo man indicted for being part of a terror plot. Hani M’suad Nasir Abu Amrah, 40, a Gazook who has lived in the southern Israeli town of Tel Sheva for the past 16 years after being granted Israeli citizenship under the family reunification program, was one of four members of a terror cell that allegedly planned to carry out a terror attack at a wedding hall and also kidnap and kill an IDF soldier to use his remains as a bargaining chip against Israel. Family reunification in Israel typically involves an Israeli citizen requesting citizenship for his or her non-Israeli spouse. Most unification applications are submitted by Israeli Arabs on behalf of a Paleostinian spouse living in the West Bank or the Gazoo Strip. The terror cell consisted of three other men from the Gazoo Strip, two of whom were residing in Israel illegally, including one who worked at the targeted wedding venue, the Shin Bet security agency revealed Thursday. Southern state prosecutors filed indictments against the men at the Beersheba District Court Thursday. Deri said Abu Amrah’s residency permit would be revoked, adding that he would fight "seriously and uncompromisingly" against "situations whereby residents take advantage of their status to try and carry out a terror attack and kill Israeli citizens." "I will take all legal steps and measures against those who wish to commit terror," Deri said. The process of family reunification for Paleostinians has been suspended in recent years due to concerns it was being abused by terror groups to gain access to Israel. Palestinian throws rocks at IDF jeep, gets himself killed [Ynet] After throwing rocks at an IDF patrol vehicle, a Paleostinian was killed by IDF fire on Thursday, north of Hebron. The rock throwers continued pummeling the soldiers even after the soldiers stopped and left their vehicle and yelled at the Paleostinians to stop. The event took place south of Gush Etzion Junction at a spot known for such altercations. As a result of the current rock throwing, one soldier was lightly injured, though he did not need to be evacuated for treatment. Upon leaving their vehicle, the soldiers commenced with the rules of engagement toward the rock throwers, and after shooting a warning shot in the air, they opened fire on their attackers, killing one of them. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-10-21 |
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