Posted on 11/04/2023 4:23:37 PM PDT by Milagros
An "explosive ambulance" attack was thwarted in Jerusalem
Publication was allowed: IDF and Shin Bet activity in Bethlehem revealed a terrorist cell that was about to carry out double attacks in Jerusalem. The plot: transfer of an explosive belt by ambulance, which will help pass checkpoints. Security officials: "This is further proof of the cynical exploitation of the terrorist organizations" Efrat Weiss | Posted 15:21, Nov 2, 2004
The General Security Service and the IDF forces have thwarted a number of terrorist attacks in Jerusalem in recent weeks, including an attack that was supposed to be carried out by introducing an explosive ambulance into the capital - this was allowed to be published today (Tuesday).
It was the activity of the security forces in Bethlehem that exposed the squads, which were assembled following cooperation between Hamas and Islamic Jihad - which is becoming more and more routine recently. The squads, according to security officials in Israel, were partly composed of Palestinian police officers. Their activities were directed by the jihadists in the Gaza Strip.
One of the squads that was captured included four suicide terrorists, all single 16-17 year olds from Bethlehem. They planned to carry out double attacks in the Mea Shearim and French Hill neighborhoods in the capital. Hamas was supposed to provide the terrorists, while Jihad - the explosive devices. Taking responsibility for carrying out the attacks was supposed to be shared by both organizations. The members of the organization have already had time to gather information about the goals.
Said Abu Gidian (Jidian) [قال أبو جديان], a Jihad operative from the Gaza Strip, was the director of the operation. Muhammad Daraawi [محمد الدرعاوي], an activist in the Palestinian national security apparatus who was recruited to Tanzim in Bethlehem, was involved in the planning of bringing the ambulance into the capital. Mohammed Najjar, a Palestinian policeman from Bethlehem, who in his role served as the driver of the Palestinian police chief in Qalqiliya, was also arrested along with him, as well as other policemen. The four recruited suicides are aged 16-17, all single from Bethlehem.
According to the security officials, Mohammed Darawi, who is suspected of carrying out shooting attacks in the Jerusalem area, admitted in his investigation that during a shift in Mokta in Bethlehem, he met an operative in the Palestinian National Security apparatus in Rafih, who asked him to help infiltrate a suicide bomber with an explosive belt into Jerusalem using an ambulance on a route that bypasses the checkpoints. Darawi turned to two Tanzim activists from the Bethlehem area, who were arrested several months later, and told them that there was an explosive and suicide ambulance with an explosive belt, who was ready to go with it to Jerusalem and carry out a suicide attack. He asked them for assistance in introducing the terrorist.
The security establishment says that Darawi's planned activity to use the ambulance as a car bomb was based on the assumption that the use of the medical vehicle would prevent an inspection by the security forces, and would help terrorists move freely into Jerusalem. "This proves a step up in the cynical exploitation of evacuation and medical vehicles by the terrorist organizations in order to carry out attacks," Israeli security officials say, adding that once again it has been proven that there is no separation between the PA's official security mechanisms and the terrorist organizations.
According to security officials, recently there has been a significant increase in the involvement of the Gaza Strip in directing and carrying out attacks, in which the terrorist is supposed to leave Samaria for Bethlehem and from there penetrate into Israel. "This plan was adopted because the buffer zone surrounding the Gaza Strip makes it difficult to carry out attacks on Israel directly from there, and because the buffer zone has not yet been completed in Judea and around Jerusalem."
History repeats itself time and time again.
04.11.23
BTW: What about ambulances?! Here are Hamas terrorists firing a rocket-propelled grenade at an ambulance on October 7 that was carrying the wounded.
This video received tens of millions of views in the various posts that went online
The video comes in response to the video released today by Hamas of the IDF attacking an ambulance (which, by the way, tried to smuggle out Hamas terrorists)
This tweet (which has had over 3 million views).
Speaking of ambulances, here are Hamas terrorists firing a rocket-propelled grenade at an ambulance on October 7 that was carrying wounded people.
https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/822463.shtml
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