BREAKING: 5 Israeli Muslims who live in Tayibe, linked with ISIS, planned to detonate a car bomb near the mall in Tel Aviv.
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) October 10, 2024
Security forces have successfully prevented the terrorists' plan and arrested them.
Thank God. Many lives have been saved.pic.twitter.com/TgK2OUNodm
| The Times of Israel tells all: |
The Israel Police and the Shin Bet security service recently thwarted a plot by five Arab Israeli citizens to carry out a car-bombing attack at Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Mall under the banner of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
terror group, according to a joint statement Thursday.
The five residents of Taybeh
…a majority-Christian Palestinian village near Ramallah…
in central Israel formed a terror cell allied to ISIS, the fanatical terror group that originated in Iraq and Syria.The five were arrested after a month-long clandestine investigation in collaboration with the Lahav 433 serious crime unit and were set to face charges in the coming days. The cell’s leaders were named as Mahmoud Azam and Ibrahim Sheik Yusef.
They recruited three others — Sajed Masarwa, Abdullah Baransi and Abdel Kareem Baransi.
Police and the Shin Bet said that the five had studied footage of terror attacks in Syria and discussed the amount of explosives needed to bring down Tel Aviv’s iconic Azrieli towers.
Azam and Yusef were in contact with foreign ISIS agents and planned to travel abroad to meet with operatives from the terror group, the statement added, noting that the plan was uncovered with the help of "precise and effective intelligence operations," and had been halted in its preliminary stages.
The statement said that the arrests "prevented a major disaster and saved lives" and vowed that the police and Shin Bet would continue to "use all means at their disposal to thwart plots to harm the security of the State of Israel and its citizens."
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