Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria are heavily armed with weapons smuggled into territory by Iran, a former intelligence official told Hebrew-language media on Wednesday.

Yossi Amrousi, who was a senior agent at the Shin Bet internal intelligence agency, told Radio103 FM that he backs aggressive anti-terror raids in the region.

“We know that northern Samaria is flooded with Iranian weapons, weapons that are much more aggressive,” Amrousi said. He noted that many of the weapons include advanced “explosives, as we saw in the recent attack in which an IDF soldier was killed.”