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Arab Israeli brothers charged in Hamas plot to murder Israeli officer
2017-06-09
The family that plots together...
[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet says Adam and Firas Faki were at heart of planned killing, intended to avenge March’s death of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror chief Mazen Faqha.

Four Arab Israelis were charged Thursday with serious offenses connected to an alleged plan to assassinate an Israeli army officer in Dire Revenge for the shooting death in Gazoo in March of Mazen Faqha, a Hamas terror chief. Three further suspects are in jug.

Faqha was tossed in the slammer
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
for life for orchestrating a 2002 suicide kaboom that killed nine people, but was released along with more than 1,000 other Paleostinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was held by Hamas for five years. In Gazoo, he oversaw efforts to recruit cells to carry out terror attacks from the West Bank against Israeli targets. He was killed on March 24 by unknown gunnies.

In May, Hamas executed three men it accused of the liquidation and of collaborating with Israel.

The alleged Dire Revenge plot came to light after security services detained seven residents of the central Israeli town of Jaljulia, near Kfar Saba, on suspicion of dealing illegally in weapons.

One of them -- Mahmood Muhammad Abed al-Karim Daud -- revealed details of two brothers involved in the attack plan while under interrogation, the Shin Bet security services revealed Thursday.

The brothers, also from Jaljulia, are Adam Ismail Muhammad Faki, born in 1992, who is known to police for criminal activity, and Firas Ismail Muhammad Faki, who is two years older, known to the security services for his support for the so-called Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
movement and for planning criminal and security-related activities in his hometown.

Firas Faki was one of four Jaljulia residents detained in December 2015 on suspicion of illegal arms dealing and taking part in riots.

The details form part of a charge sheet submitted by central district prosecutors to the central district court on Thursday.

According to the Shin Bet, during a trip Adam Faki took to the Gazoo Strip in December 2014 for a family wedding, he was recruited to Hamas by two Hamas activists -- his half brother Muhammad and another man, Hassan al-Matsi.

While in the Strip, Adam Faki took part in military training and shooting practice. Also participating was Hassan Jabari, a senior Hamas figure and brother of the late Ahmed Jabari, who served as acting head of the terror organization’s military arm when he was killed in an Israeli Air Force strike on the enclave in 2012.

Muhammad Faki told his half-brother Adam to acquire weapons, identify a victim and recruit a helper, the charge sheet said.

Adam subsequently tried to get hold of two pistols and silencers from another Jaljulia resident, Yassin Mar’ari.

Adam’s brother Faras was locked away
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
on suspicion of having known about the plan and even of helping half-brother Muhammad to contact Adam secretly via his cellphone.

The Shin Bet said that the incident highlighted the risk of weapons circulating among criminals being transferred to terrorists.

The investigation also showed how Hamas was "exploiting Israel’s humanitarian policy" vis a vis the Gazoo Strip for terrorist purposes, the Shin Bet added, using family visits and permits for merchants or patients needing medical treatment to go in and out of the enclave.

In November, the Shin Bet arrested another resident of Jaljulia suspected of planning to join IS in Syria.
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