Gaza Interior Ministry announces arrest of a number of officers assisting in the assassination of senior Islamic Jihad early last month • "The squad followed him for several months to the last hour before the assassination" • "The information was transmitted directly to Israeli intelligence agencies"
Al-Ata's liquidation scene, November 2019 // Photo: IP
Hamas's Interior Ministry announced Sunday (Sunday) at a press conference that it "has arrested Palestinian Authority officials who helped Israel with the assassination of Al-Atta."
According to the Gaza Interior Ministry statement, "Since the assassination of the martyr Baha'u Abu Al-Atta, a commander in the military wing of the Islamic Jihad al-Quds Brigades, on November 12, our security services have launched the crime investigation. The security services detained a cell that collected information about Abu Al-Ata, monitored its movements and conducted surveillance.
The statement said that "the squad followed him for a few months to the last hour before the assassination. In Palestinian intelligence. The person passed the information on Abu Al-Ata directly to the Israeli intelligence agencies. "