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Amid war of words, IDF nabs top Islamic Jihad official in West Bank
[IsraelTimes] Arrest comes after rare warning to terror group over suspected plot to carry out attack against Israel in retaliation for Gazoo tunnel kaboomIsraeli forces tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a top commander of 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 group in the West Bank early Monday morning, a day after Jerusalem warned the group amid rising tensions over Gazoo. The Shin Bet security service confirmed that Tariq Qa’adan was picked up by the Israel Defense Forces in Arrabeh, southwest of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. Qa’adan serves as a senior officer in the Gazoo-based terror group’s West Bank wing, the Shin Bet said. A Shin Bet official said Qa’adan was arrested "for being a member of a terrorist group." IDF soldiers also arrested 13 other Paleostinian suspects in overnight raids in the West Bank, the army said. Qa’adan’s arrest came two days after Israel released a stern warning to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, saying that it was aware the terror group was planning to carry out an attack in retaliation to the IDF’s demolition of one of its attack tunnels that crossed from Gazoo into Israeli territory last month. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-11-14 |
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