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| Israel nabs 2 Palestinian intel officers for making, selling guns |
| 2016-07-12 |
| [IsraelTimes] In crackdown on illegal weapons in the West Bank, security forces seize firearms, ammo Israeli forces locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! four Paleostinian men outside of Nablus on Sunday night, including two members of the Paleostinian security service, who are believed to be involved in the production and sale of illegal weapons in the West Bank and Israel, the Shin Bet security agency said. Numerous guns, ammunition and four drill presses, believed to have been used to create improvised weapons, were also seized in the raid, which took place in the village of Urif, just south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the Shin Bet said. During the raid, Israeli forces picked up Assem Najah Sharif Safadi and Ali Najah Sharif Safadi, residents of Urif who serve as intelligence officers in the Paleostinian Authority’s security service, the Shin Bet said. Saadi Najah Sharif Safadi, 46, and Najah Assad Najah Safadi, 24, were also arrested in the crackdown, the security service said. The four men appeared to be related to one another, but this could not be immediately confirmed with law enforcement. "The assessment is that the above-mentioned took advantage of their connections to also sell [guns] to arms dealers in Israel," the Shin Bet said. The overnight raid was a joint operation conducted by the Shin Bet, the IDF’s Samaria Regional Brigade, the Nahal Infantry Brigade, the undercover Duvdevan Unit and the Israel Police’s Samaria Division. In addition to the locally produced "Carlo" submachine guns, which are loosely based off the designs of the Swedish Carl Gustav submachine gun, Israeli forces found pistols and components of M-16 assault rifles. "This move is part of an ongoing effort against the production and sale of weaponry in the West Bank," the Shin Bet said. In the past two weeks, the Paleostinian Authority has also begun cracking down on illegal guns in Nablus and Jenin, following a number of internal conflicts that left several dead in the West Bank, the Paleostinian Ma’an news site reported Monday. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the Shin Bet denied any connection or collaboration between the Israel and Paleostinian forces in the effort. The Carlo-style submachine gun has been the scourge of Israeli law enforcement throughout the recent violence in the West Bank and Israel. The easily produced but deadly weapon has been used in multiple Paleostinian attacks on Israeli civilians and security forces in the past year. Last month, two cousins from the village of Yatta opened fire in a Tel Aviv restaurant with such weapons, killing four and wounding over a dozen others, before they could be arrested. The often fully automatic Carlo can be created from nothing more than a water pipe and some basic tools, including the types of drill presses seized in Sunday night’s raid. Elsewhere in the West Bank, IDF soldiers arrested seven other Paleostinians overnight, six of them for rock throwing and taking part in violent protests and one for undisclosed reasons, the army said. The IDF is currently conducting a manhunt in the southern West Bank for a gunman who shot up Israeli car on a highway between settlements Saturday night, lightly injuring one man. |
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