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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Border Police bust gun trafficking ring
2016-12-01
[IsraelTimes] Suspects allegedly smuggled and sold IDF weapons in West Bank; police say arms and ammunition used in terror attacks.

Israel’s Border Police tossed in the clink
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
four members of an alleged cell on suspicion of weapons smuggling and trafficking, police said Wednesday.

According to the police, two of the men arrested, both residents of the southern West Bank city of Hebron,
...since it is Hebron, Hamas headquarters in the West Bank, we will just assume the gentlemen in question belong to that interesting organization...
acquired military grade weapons and ammunition used by the IDF and smuggled them to the West Bank, where they were subsequently sold to various sources, including the Paleostinian Authority.

The weapons and ammunition sold by the suspects were allegedly used in terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces. The police did not specify which shootings the weapons and ammunition were used in, or whether the guns and bullets used were supplied to the attackers by the Paleostinian Authority.

The police said that the two men from Hebron were arrested while illegally staying in Israel, while another two of the detainees are residents of Israel’s south.

The arrests were made Tuesday, police said.

Since a nearly year-long wave of terrorist attacks began in October 2015, Israeli security forces have carried out nightly arrests of Paleostinians in the West Bank possessing weapons and involved in gun running.

While many of the hundreds of weapons captured were army issue, others were improvised weapons built in illegal gun making workshops. Their street value is significantly less than higher quality guns such as a M-16 rifle, making them easier to acquire.

This year alone, the IDF has shut down approximately 40 of such workshops, which manufactured guns such as those used in the Sarona Market shooting attack in Tel Aviv in June, and which have became ubiquitous throughout the West Bank during the recent terror wave.
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