by Lilach Shova
Secret Hamas unit in Gaza transmits coded messages via Gaza-based Al-Aqsa TV station, using quotes from the Quran or subtle gestures by the presenters, to recruit Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and east Jerusalem for terrorist activity, Shin Bet says.
An Al-Aqsa TV newscaster places a mug on his desk in what the Shin Bet says
was a secret code to an operative in Judea and Samaria
Photo: Al-Aqsa TV/Shin Bet
The
Shin Bet security agency on Wednesday revealed that a secret Hamas unit
in the Gaza strip had tried to recruit Palestinians in Judea and Samaria
and east Jerusalem for terrorist activity against Israel.
The unit, according to the Shin Bet,
transmitted its coded messages via the Gaza-based Al-Aqsa TV station,
using quotes from the Quran or subtle gestures by the presenters. The
Shin Bet named two presenters who it said conveyed messages from Gaza
via signals on air, and cited an instance in which a presenter did so by
placing a cup of tea on a desk and reciting a line from a poem.
In recent years the Shin Bet and IDF have
arrested dozens of young Palestinians with Israeli ID cards, including
women, in Judea and Samaria and east Jerusalem, who communicated with
the Hamas unit and received instructions from it to carry out terrorist
attacks in Judea and Samaria.
The detained Palestinian operatives
revealed during their interrogations that they had been recruited and
handled by Hamas in Gaza, often via Facebook.
"This activity by Hamas' military wing
joins a long list of attempts to perpetrate terrorist attacks through
the recruitment of operatives in Judea and Samaria and east Jerusalem,
which were stopped by us and have thus far led to imprisonment of dozens
of youngsters [from those places]," a senior Shin Bet official said.
"The attempts point to a strategy of trying to undermine stability in Judea and Samaria at all costs," the official added.
Lilach Shova
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2019/02/14/hamas-recruiting-operatives-in-judea-and-samaria-via-codes-on-tv/
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