Posted on 10/01/2001 12:43:30 AM PDT by Ymani Cricket
GSS Arrests 20 Hamas Terrorists
By Margot Dudkevitch
JERUSALEM (October 1) - The General Security Service revealed yesterday the recent arrest of more than 20 Hamas terrorists, part of a widespread terrorist infrastructure operating in Samaria who were trained and received their instructions directly from Hamas headquarters in Syria and other countries.
All those arrested were qualified in the use of weapons and explosives, the majority, young university students who were recruited by Hamas during university studies in Syria, Sudan, Yemen, and other countries. Some of them were involved in the planning of the two suicide bombings in Netanya on April 30 and May 18, in which eight Israelis were killed and scores wounded. The terrorists had also planned to recruit young Israeli Arabs to assist them.
All the terrorists underwent intense training and were skilled in weapons use, high quality explosives, and different methods of detonating bombs they prepared and were also taught how to perpetrate different attacks against civilian and military targets, including the abduction of soldiers. At the end of their training they were sent to the territories to establish and operate terror cells, mainly in Samaria.
Hassin Zail, 31, from Zbubah in Samaria, studied at a university in Syria where he was recruited and sent for training in Syria and Lebanon. At the beginning of 1999, he returned as a military expert and began training new recruits in explosives and operations. He instructed his cell members to search for a hiding place, to purchase raw materials for explosives, and gather intelligence.
At the same time, Ahmed Abu Faraj, 25, from Shuweikeh, was instructed to establish a cell which would perpetrate attacks. Faraj recruited Iyad Dakor, Ramzi Nallawah, and Juad Kalibi, all in their 20s.
Additional suspects are to be arrested the GSS said.
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