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| Bedouin Israeli brothers charged with supplying arms to Islamic Jihad in West Bank |
| 2023-02-10 |
| [IsraelTimes] Shin Bet says Adam and Mohammed Abu Taha, residents of Tel Sheva, supplied 150,000 rounds of ammo, dozens of weapon parts to terror group in Jenin The Shin Bet security agency on Thursday said two Israeli brothers from a southern Bedouin town were arrested for allegedly supplying 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... operatives in the West Bank with firearm parts and ammunition. In December 2022, Border Police troops detained Adam and Mohammed Abu Taha, residents of Tel Sheva, as well as Majdi Amarna, a Paleostinian from the West Bank village of Yabed, near Jenin, over the suspected illegal arms trade. According to the Shin Bet, the Abu Taha brothers supplied some 150,000 rounds of ammunition and dozens of weapon parts to Islamic Jihad terror operatives in the Jenin area. A complete M16 rifle was seized from the two men during their arrest. The pair also allegedly sold weapon parts to criminal elements in southern Israel. Amid the investigation, two more Israeli civilians from the Negev area in southern Israel, Khaled Alaasem and Mughanim Alaasem, were detained over their alleged involvement in the case. Indictments were filed against the Abu Taha brothers on Thursday at the Beersheba District Court, charging them with various weapons and security offenses. Prosecutors said the pair knowingly assisted terror operatives: "This is not a one-time event, but rather a methodical and continuous course of action over a period of time that included ongoing and intensive contact and many meetings with PIJ operatives." An indictment against Amarna was to be filed at a military court in the coming days, and the two additional Israeli civilians were to be charged at the Beersheba court in the coming days too, the Shin Bet said. "The Shin Bet and Israel Police take extremely seriously the involvement of Israeli citizens in security offenses, while providing service and assistance to terror organizations and their operatives, including the supply of weapons and ammunition, which has the potential to directly and substantially harm the security of the state," the agency said in a statement, adding that it would work to foil such attempts "and bring those involved to justice." |
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