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Hamas cell hit in West Bank raids planned massive Jerusalem terror attack – TV
[IsraelTimes] Well-organized network was reportedly planning a series of kidnappings and murders across the country.

Raids that targeted alleged members of a Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, cell in the West Bank overnight Saturday, and killed five Paleostinian suspects, prevented a major terror attack reminiscent of the Second Intifada, officials told Hebrew-language television networks.

The cell planned to conduct a sequence of kidnappings and murders across the country, defense officials told Channel 13 news. The group did not, however, have the capability to commit suicide kabooms, the network said.

Officials estimated to Channel 12 that the cell had also been planning a major attack in Jerusalem, similar to those seen during the violent mostly peaceful uprising in the early 2000s, without elaborating further.

The arrest operation began after the Shin Bet realized that the group was apparently set to carry out the attack imminently, the network said.

The Israel Defense Forces believes some members of the Hamas cell are still on the loose. In total, some 20 suspected members of the cell have been arrested in recent days, according to the military.

In total, some 20 suspected members of the cell have been arrested in recent days, according to the military.
Officials suspect there was a direct line of communication between the cell and 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
-ruling Hamas terror group, Channel 12 said. The cell was well organized and decentralized, the network added.

The operations against the cell in the West Bank will likely continue in the coming days, officials told the Kan public broadcaster. But still, the IDF believes it largely prevented the group’s attacks, according to military assessments.

According to the IDF, at least seven suspected members of the Hamas cell were arrested during arrest raids overnight Saturday, and at least five other suspected bad boyz were potted after they shot up IDF troops. Five guns were also confiscated in the raids, along with large amounts of ammunition. Several other members of the group had been arrested on the preceding nights.

The IDF is also investigating the circumstances in which two soldiers were seriously injured in a shootout and increasingly believe that they were hit by friendly fire, after a Paleostinian gunman shot up them.

"This is a significant achievement, a night of a series of preemptive raids of the utmost importance that prevented — from our understanding — significant terror attacks. Such attacks could have been carried out in Jerusalem, Netanya, Tel Aviv, Afula or anywhere else," IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi said on Sunday afternoon, speaking from the Israel Defense Forces’ Menashe Regional Brigade headquarters in the northern West Bank, following a situational assessment.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett confirmed that the Hamas cell was planning to carry out terror attacks imminently.

"Security forces acted tonight in Judea and Samaria against Hamas murderous Moslems who were poised to carry out terror attacks in the immediate future," Bennett said in a statement, en route to New York to speak at the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
General Assembly, using the biblical term for the West Bank.

The IDF refused to comment more specifically on what the alleged Hamas cell was suspected of planning to do, but said that most of the members were arrested with weapons in their possession and that some of them had shot up Israeli troops during the raids.
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-09-27
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