by Lilach Shoval and Israel Hayom Staff
Shin Bet: Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences planned to kidnap Israeli soldiers and use them as bargaining chips in exchange deal • Kidnappings were to have targeted soldiers at the Huwara, Ariel and Yitzhar junctions in Samaria.
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Palestinian
prisoners: The Shin Bet has foiled a plot to kidnap Israeli soldiers
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Photo credit: Moshe Shai
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The Shin Bet, in conjunction with the Israel Prison
Service, has foiled a plot hatched by Palestinian prisoners serving life
sentences to kidnap Israeli soldiers and use them as bargaining chips in an
exchange deal.
Indictments against the suspects have been filed at the
Salem Military Court, the Shin Bet said on Sunday.
According to investigators, the planned kidnappings were
supposed to have taken place in April.
The suspects allegedly began planning the kidnappings in
2012. They worked to obtain funding and weaponry, and recruited prisoners who
were set to be released to carry out the kidnappings once they had left
jail.
Using smuggled cellphones, the imprisoned plotters sent
instructions to recruits on the outside, telling them to prepare a hiding place,
purchase weapons and anesthetic materials and obtain a stolen vehicle. They were
also told to visit Saudi Arabia to meet with an operative who would provide them
with funding.
The kidnappings were to have targeted Israeli soldiers at the
Huwara, Ariel and Yitzhar junctions in Samaria.
Lilach Shoval and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=17437
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