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The uncovering of a significant Hamas terror cell based in the Hevron area was cleared for publication in a Shin Bet announcement yesterday (Tuesday). Ynet says initial indictments have been filed in the Judea Military Court.
- Cell leaders received “money, messages, and instructions” from Hamas terror leaders based outside Israel – including (according to Haaretz) Haroun Nasser Adin, another of several Shalit Deal beneficiaries now operating from Turkey.
- The cell, made up of dozens of Palestinian Arabs, “promoted” Hamas activity in the area including recruiting new members for its work; coordinating via mosques; gathering intelligence; engaging in incitement via sermons and the social media; giving support to prisoners’ families; transferring messages and instructions; moving funds around to finance terror.
- An attempt, in the words of an Israel National News report, “to take control of the Hevron municipality and various charities in the city“.
- The establishment of a local committee to be the Hevron operational arm of Hamas’ headquarters.
- A special focus on women – dozens of them from the Hevron area are reported to have been recruited into Hamas via this initiative.
The committee was said to be headed by a woman named Dina al-Karmi. Ynet gives her name as Dina al-Said. An Arab source calls her Donya Sa’id and fleshes out the description with this disingenuous line: “the wife a Palestinian man who was killed by the army several years ago“.
Reuters reports today that the Hamas terrorist organization has claimed full reponsibility for yesterday’s ambush and execution of four Israeli civilians.
It quotes a Hamas statement saying it “announces its full responsibility for the heroic operation in Hebron”. This, in Hamas terms, was indeed a heroic operation, a classic of its kind. It was directed at a carload of two men, two women. No Israeli soldiers in the vicinity. No strategic goal other than terrorism for its own sake. The shooters, dressed in civilian clothing, fled into the night. Heroism, pure and simple. Heroism of the kind that the world has come to know and expect from exponents of Islamicism in its various jihadist flavours.
A little reported aspect of the Hamas heroism: one of the rescue service volunteers who arrived on the scene (according to the Jerusalem Post) broke down in tears on viewing the bodies. His colleagues were surprised – this is not a new experience in their line of work. Then they heard him crying out: “That’s my wife!’ That’s my wife!‘ and indeed his wife is one of the four victims.
Their names again (because these are human beings): Yitzhak and Tali Ames (who leave six orphans), Cochava Even Haim, and Avishai Schindler… [“1-Sep-10: Real people, real terror“]
Israeli forces in the West Bank have shot dead two Hamas militants they say were responsible for the killings of four Israelis last month, according to a senior Palestinian security official… Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement that the operation was “a quick response to the murder of the four Israelis”… The senior Palestinian security official said Nashat al-Karmi and Mamoun al-Natshi were killed in an early morning raid and had been identified by family members. Hamas media later confirmed the killings. The official said the two belonged to Islamist Hamas and were behind the killing of four Israelis on the eve of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that began last month. Hamas, which controls the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, opposes the talks.
[“Two shot dead in Hebron“, The Irish Times, October 8, 2010]
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“Israeli radio said troops in Hebron killed two men in a gun battle which broke out after they surrounded a militant hideout and dynamited it… Correspondents identified the two dead in Hebron as members of the Hamas militant organisation. Witnesses said one of them was a local Hamas chief called Murad Qawasmeh. The two-storey house they were hiding in belonged to Nizar Shehadeh, witnesses said, who was jailed by Israel six months ago for having links to a local charity that supported Hamas.” [“Israelis kill three Palestinians“, BBC News, November 25, 2004]
Fatah leaders are growing deeply worried over popular reaction and support for its rival, Hamas, to the point of crushing recent demonstrations… In a series of interviews, people here said they were enraged by the photographs and television images of the Palestinian dead in Hamas-controlled Gaza, which they consider part of themselves. They said that support for Hamas would grow as this conflict went on, and that they were intimidated by the Palestinian security forces of Mr. Abbas…”
“The exposure of the infrastructure proves once again that the Hamas headquarters in the Gaza Strip and abroad are directing Hamas activities in Judea and Samaria, through any means at their disposal, including through the use of women…”
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