The sad thing is that many of these people had been released from Israeli prisons. Either execute them or lock them away for good.
by Staff
The IDF and the Shin Bet, the Israel Security Agency, have arrested close to two dozen Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) operatives who were running a number of terror cells near Jerusalem and planning to kidnap soldiers and perpetrate other terror attacks against Israel, it was released for publication on Sunday.
Some of the operatives, the Shin Bet said, were Arabs from eastern Jerusalem in possession of Israeli identity cards enabling them to travel freely throughout the country.
Over 20 suspects have been arrested in recent weeks, the Shin Bet said, including a number who have significant military experience and have been in Israeli prisons before.
One of the alleged leaders of the group was Nasser Abu- Khadir, a 50-year-old resident of the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem.
In 1981, Khadir was seriously injured when an explosive he was building blew up in his hands. In 1988, he was released from prison and continued to engage in anti-Israel terrorist activity, for which he was arrested a number of additional times over the years.
The Shin Bet said Khadir told his interrogators he was responsible for establishing the terrorist infrastructure based in Jerusalem and Ramallah, and was in touch with PFLP leadership in Damascus, which was supposed to provide financial and logistical assistance as well as overseas military training for Israel-based operatives.
Khadir allegedly instructed other members of the cells to purchase pistols and silencers, and surrendered a weapon that he had already obtained following his arrest.
Another senior operative was Walid Habas, 31, from Kfar Akab in northern Jerusalem.
Habas was released from an Israeli prison in 2007 after serving a four-year sentence for his involvement in the attempted lynching of an IDF soldier near Ramallah in 1998.
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Tags: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Shin Bet
