Eight 'Israeli Arabs' charged with smuggling 20 kilos of high-grade explosives for Hezbullah
Eight 'Israeli Arabs' from Nazareth and Ghajar have been charged in Nazareth district court with smuggling 20 kilos (44 pounds) of high-grade explosives on behalf of Hezbullah. The Israeli security forces believe that Hezbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah had to have known of and approved the operation.The 20 kg of C-4 explosives - each kilogram was wrapped separately and could have been used to assemble a separate bomb - were smuggled into Israel in a single bag by a number of residents of Ghajar on June 5.What could go wrong?
The bag was transferred a few days later to a resident of Nazareth, Abed Zoabi - another known drug dealer - who hid the bag in his backyard where it was captured by the Israel Police in mid July.
"The explosives could have been used against any type of target inside Israel," a senior Shin Bet official said on Wednesday. "This is just the tip of the iceberg of Hezbollah's efforts against Israel...the attempted attack here and the recent attack in Bulgaria are all carried out by the same organization."
The Shin Bet official said that such an operation - to infiltrate explosives into Israel from Lebanon - would have needed approval from the top Hezbollah echelon, including likely from the organization's leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.
The official said that it was possible that Hezbollah was working with other people to recruit terrorists who would then be used to carry out the attacks. So far, the Shin Bet has not arrested anyone who was supposed to carry out the actual attacks.
Labels: Ghajar, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbullah, Islamic terrorism, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column
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