The Shin Bet reveals: This is how Hamas tried to use Israelis in the network in order to carry out missions inside Israel
In recent weeks, the Director of the General Security Service, in cooperation with the IDF and the Jerusalem Governor in the Israel Police, conducted an intelligence effort that led to the disclosure of a phenomenon that began before the war, in which Hamas operatives from the Gaza Strip used Jewish citizens of Israel, without their knowledge, as helpers for the delivery of shipments - with the purpose of the estimated activity being their training Assist in the transfer of explosives or weapons in order to carry out attacks against quality targets in Israel.
The activity was carried out by the operatives of the "Hegada Headquarters" - a body of the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, led and composed mostly of terrorists who were released in the "Gilad Shalit Deal", in the department known as the "Jobs Department". This department is believed to direct terrorist attacks against Israelis in Israel.
As part of the intelligence efforts, on 12/18/2023 IDF and Shin Bet forces raided the office of the Hamas department in the Gaza Strip and located computers and paperwork containing information about the terrorist infrastructures that operated against Israel even before the war.
One of the documents located by the IDF and the Shin Bet, in the offices of the Hamas department in the Gaza Strip, revealed information about the relations that Hamas operatives from the Gaza Strip had with Jewish residents of the Jerusalem area, during the month of September 2023, and tasks in the field of missions that they were asked to carry out by Hamas operatives from the Gaza Strip in the territories of Israel and Judea and Samaria.