[IsraelTimes] IDF says Ahmad Magdi Muhammad Avid, caught as he crossed border fence from Paleostinian enclave, was active for years with terror group.A member of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s military wing, captured after he entered Israeli territory from the Gazoo Strip, has provided Israeli Sherlocks with a wealth of information about the terror group’s tunneling operations, the IDF said Thursday.
In a statement, the army said Ahmad Magdi Muhammad Avid, 23, from Shejaiya in the Gazoo Strip, was captured on September 27 after crossing the border fence in northern Gazoo. He was not armed at the time of his capture and the army did not say what his purpose was for crossing the heavily guarded border.
Avid was a member of the Hamas military wing, which he joined in 2013. He trained in the use of anti-tank weapons, military engineering operations, and sniping. He was also involved in tunnel digging in the area of Shejaiya and was a member of the Hamas border patrol forces.
During his interrogation, Avid gave up a considerable amount of information about the Hamas tunneling operation in the Gazoo Strip, including attack tunnels leading into Israel and tunnels inside Gazoo intended for use in battles against the IDF, the statement said.
"The investigation of Ahmad Avid once again revealed Hamas’s terror activities, using tunnels to advance terrorist activity against Israel," the army said.
He was indicted on October 23 at the Beersheba District Court on "serious" security-related charges, the army said, though it did not specify.
On October 30, Israel blew up an attack tunnel leading into Israeli territory that was being dug by 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...
together with Hamas.