[IsraelTimes] Security agency uncovers firearms, grenades; reveals that members underwent training, conducted surveillance with intention of carrying out major attacks
The Shin Bet security agency said Sunday that it had arrested over 60 Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
operatives over the past few months as part of one of the largest crackdowns on a West Bank terror network in recent years.
In a statement, the agency said that in the past three months, during joint operations with the IDF and police, "a significant, complex, and large-scale Hamas infrastructure was exposed in Hebron," with those involved accused of planning a variety of types of attacks "in the immediate time frame."
"This is the largest and most complex investigation by the Shin Bet in the Judea and Samaria area in the past decade," a senior Shin Bet official said in the statement, referring to the West Bank.
The Shin Bet said its interrogations found that senior Hamas operatives from the Hebron area, most of whom were formerly placed in durance vile
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by Israel, "worked to recruit, arm, and train additional Hamas operatives from the area to carry out shooting and bombing attacks against Israeli targets."
"It was also revealed that members of the infrastructure conducted firearms training, gathered intelligence on Israeli targets, manufactured kaboom, and assembled bombs, all with the aim of carrying out major attacks on behalf of Hamas" in the West Bank and in Israel, the agency said. No attacks were actually carried out, though some of those arrested were accused of having taken part in a deadly shooting nearly 15 years ago.
Over 60 members of Hamas involved in 10 linked terror cells were detained by Israeli forces, the Shin Bet said. During their interrogations, they provided information that led to additional suspects, though no details were provided about the other arrests.
The agency said it also uncovered 22 firearms and 11 grenades, along with other weapons and large amounts of ammunition. Additionally, an underground arsenal and hideout was uncovered, it said.
Based on information provided under interrogation, some of those arrested were accused of involvement in an August 2010 shooting attack at Bani Naim Junction near Hebron, in which four Israelis — Yitzhak and Tali Ames, and two passengers in their car, Kochava Even Chaim and Avishai Schindler — were murdered.
Additionally, the interrogations led to the arrests of several suspects involved in supplying guns to a Hamas cell that shot and killed Cpl. Avraham Fetena, a Military Police soldier, in a November 2023 attack on a West Bank checkpoint on Route 60, south of Jerusalem, the Shin Bet said.
"The exposure of the infrastructure, which operated covertly while maintaining compartmentalization between the different cells, constitutes a significant thwarting of Hamas’s intentions to carry out a series of major attacks in Israel," the Shin Bet official added.
Indictments were filed against the suspects, accusing them of severe crimes, including heading a terror organization, and the equivalent of attempted murder and attempted conspiracy to commit murder.
Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas led a devastating invasion of southern Israel from the 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with 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 ...
Strip that triggered the ongoing war in the enclave, troops have arrested some 6,000 Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 950 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or Death Eaters carrying out attacks. 
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