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Israel indicts Islamic Jihad militant al-Saadi whose arrest fueled Gaza tensions
2022-08-27
[AnNahar] The Israeli military said it has filed terror charges against a senior member of the 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...
krazed killer group whose arrest in the occupied West Bank helped spark three days of heavy fighting in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
earlier this month.

Islamic Jihad had demanded the release of Bassam al-Saadi and another detained Paleostinian who is on a prolonged hunger strike as part of the Egyptian-brokered cease-fire that ended the fighting. The indictment signals that those demands will not be met.

The military said al-Saadi, 62, stands accused of "committing crimes of affiliation with and activity in an illegal association" and receiving funds from Islamic Jihad in Gaza, as well as "impersonation, incitement and aiding contact with enemy elements," the military said.

Islamic Jihad is an Iran-sponsored Paleostinian krazed killer group that is opposed to Israel's existence and has carried out scores of deadly attacks over the years targeting Israeli civilians. It operates in both the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

Al-Saadi was arrested earlier this month during a night-time military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin. In response to his arrest, Islamic Jihad said it was going "on alert."

Israel says the group was planning a Dire Revenge attack from Gaza. In response to what it said was an imminent threat, Israel launched a wave of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Gaza that killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander. The faceless myrmidons began launching hundreds of rockets at Israel hours later.

The flare-up left 49 Paleostinians dead, including the krazed killer group's top two commanders and 10 other fighters, before the cease-fire took effect. Gazook faceless myrmidons fired some 1,100 rockets, but no one on the Israeli side was killed or seriously maimed.

It was the deadliest exchange of fire since last year's war between Israel and Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,, the krazed killer group that has ruled Gaza for the last 15 years — and which did not take part in the latest fighting.

Despite the lopsided toll, Islamic Jihad has held rallies across Gaza in recent days, including on Thursday, on the main road of Gaza's Shijaiyah neighborhood. At a rally Wednesday in the southern town of Rafah, the faceless myrmidons displayed life-sized replicas of rockets.
How sweet.
Al-Saadi has spent a total of 15 years over several stints in Israeli jails for being an Islamic Jihad member. Israel killed two of his sons, who were also Islamic Jihad krazed killers, in separate incidents in 2002, and destroyed his home during a fierce battle in Jenin that year.
The Times of Israel adds:
Saadi, the leader of the terror group in the West Bank, was arrested on August 1 by Israeli troops in the Palestinian city of Jenin. His arrest followed intelligence information indicating that Saadi had continued to be active in the PIJ, a military source said.

According to the indictment, Saadi worked to assist two other Palestinians to “advance activities” of the PIJ’s student council, which is considered by Israel to be a part of the outlawed group. The pair received $5,000 from a terror operative in the Gaza Strip for the activities, according to the indictment.

The charge of incitement was given over May interview in which Saadi said if Israeli troops enter the Jenin refugee camp “and went door to door, God forbid, then the resistance would rise like ‘phoenixes’ from the fire or the coals… the Jenin refugee camp is a part of the Palestinian people who remain to fight until they are removed from our land, sea, sky, and holy places.”

During his arrest on August 1, Saadi identified himself to troops as his brother Ghassan, and was therefore also charged with assuming a false identity, according to the indictment.

Shin Bet said that in recent months Saadi “worked even harder to restore PIJ activities, in which he was behind the creation of a significant military force of the organization in Samaria in general and in Jenin in particular,” referring to the northern West Bank.

“His presence was a significant factor in the radicalization of the organization’s operatives in the field,” the security service added.
Related:
Bassam al-Saadi: 2022-08-09 Islamic Jihad names 12 members of military wing killed in Gaza flare-up, shot off 1100+ rockets
Bassam al-Saadi: 2022-08-08 Grass mown: Gaza ceasefire takes effect, per agreement by Israel, Islamic Jihad
Bassam al-Saadi: 2016-06-18 Firebombs damage home in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv
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