The Northern District Attorney’s Office is expected to file an indictment this morning (Sunday) in the Nazareth District Court against residents of the Galilee who were recruited and operated by Hezbollah, for offenses of conspiracy to commit crime and trafficking, possession and carrying of weapons and offenses of contact with a foreign agent. Contact, experience in importing weapons, arms trade, possession, carrying and transportation.
Two of the suspects have met in Turkey several times, with Lebanese arms and drug smugglers operating on behalf of Hezbollah. The two were asked to carry out arms smuggling into the territory of the State of Israel to establish a dormant infrastructure of Hezbollah operatives. They were also asked to assist in the abduction of Israelis, providing information on targets for missile attacks and locating suitable points for crossing and smuggling at the border.
Photo: IDF Spokesman
The two suspects, (55,33), a resident of Kfar Yarka and a resident of Kfar Jadida, approached two other suspects, one 56-year-old resident of Yarka and another 40-year-old resident of Achbara to assist them in the operation and with them toured near the border to find suitable crossings. And smuggling. The four suspects were arrested and transferred to the GSS for further investigation. During their interrogation, they turned over an MP5 submachine gun.
Iran is trying to mobilize minorities in Israeli territory for its benefit
GSS and police investigators succeeded in formulating a skillful investigation into the evidentiary infrastructure against the suspects from the village of Yarka and Jadida sold for offenses of contact with a foreign agent, providing service to a terrorist organization, conspiracy, attempting to import weapons, trafficking, possession, carrying and transport. To them he will be charged with the offenses of conspiracy to commit a crime and trafficking, possession and carrying and carrying of weapons.
Israeli security forces are recognizing increasing attempts by Hezbollah elements under Iranian directive to recruit and equip Israeli residents with the means and weapons to carry out terrorist activities in Israeli territory and assist Hezbollah in the event of a military conflict. The Israel Police calls on citizens who receive similar inquiries from terrorist elements to report this to the police, thus avoiding a situation in which they will find themselves suspected of collaborating with the same parties.
The IDF spokesman said that in the past year, the Shiite axis has been promoting terrorist attacks and smuggling of weapons within Israeli territory. Meanwhile, a special team of the IDF, the GSS, the police and other bodies has been set up to deal with the issue of smuggling weapons and drugs.
In the past year, drug smuggling routes from Lebanon have been exposed
In the past year, the IDF and security forces have dealt with cases in which a link between the drug smuggling routes from Lebanon and weapons smuggling routes has been exposed, as well as thwarting the smuggling of dozens of pistols and tens of kilograms of drugs. Israel.
As part of the operations of the special team, two activists suspected of belonging to terrorist infrastructure and smuggling in favor of Hezbollah-sponsored terrorist attacks were recently arrested.
Recently, a round of meetings was held between Lebanese drug and weapons dealers and Israeli and Palestinian activists in an attempt to promote hostile terrorist activity in Israeli territory. At one of the meetings, they stated to them that the people behind the planned smuggling were Hezbollah and Iran.