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Revealed: Hamas using Gazan fishermen to smuggle weapons
INN ^ | 5/16/2016, 3:55 PM | Ari Soffer

Posted on 05/16/2016 6:29:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A Gazan fisherman arrested by Israeli security services has revealed how Hamas regularly uses fishermen to smuggle weapons and other military equipment into Gaza.

The Shin Bet security service (Israel Security Agency), Israeli navy and Israel Police released for publication Monday afternoon the arrest of 39-year-old fisherman Salim Jamal Hasan Na’aman back in April.

Na’aman, a resident of the Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, was initially detained by Israeli naval forces after straying beyond the zone permitted for fishing, as part of the Israeli military’s blockade aimed at containing the Hamas terrorist group.

Under Shin Bet interrogation, the fisherman revealed how over a prolonged period he had personally helped smuggle weapons, ammunition, rocket-making equipment and other military equipment via sea into Gaza, on behalf of Hamas and other terrorist organizations. …

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egypt; eritrea; fatah; fishermen; gaza; hamas; iran; israel; lebanon; plo; rop; shinbet; sinai; smuggling; stateofpalestine; waronterror; yemem

1 posted on 05/16/2016 6:29:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
The fisherman have found where we all lost our guns in tragic boating accidents.
2 posted on 05/16/2016 6:45:08 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
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To: Olog-hai

Blow up the boat with the Muzzlime on it. Bet he won’t do THAT again!


3 posted on 05/16/2016 7:54:21 PM PDT by EinNYC
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Probably more profitable than catching fish. Maybe they should be called smugglers instead of fishermen.

4 posted on 05/17/2016 4:20:54 AM PDT by SJackson (Oh my God, she's so beautiful and she's so little!, Huma first impression of Hillary)
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To: Olog-hai

The report gives information about all sorts of arms smuggling, on different frontiers - yet there is a total lack of tangible evidence. It is all according to the results of a Shin Bet interrogation - they got the fisherman to tell them all this.


5 posted on 05/17/2016 5:33:26 AM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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