Hamas deliberately recruits Arab citizens whose parents were born in Gaza or Judea and Samaria, to carry out terrorist and intelligence operations, according to an internal document of the General Security Service that was presented to the government.
The data refer to a series of Palestinian fighting operations that took place within the Green Line, in 2020 and 2021, up to Operation Wall Guard.
These are actual terrorist acts or gathering intelligence for Hamas, sometimes during rounds of fighting with the organization.
Hamas deliberately turned to Arabs with Israeli citizenship, one of whose parents was born in Gaza or Judea and Samaria.
The riots in the Negev // Archive photo: Police spokeswoman
The activities included the use of hot and cold weapons, as well as gathering information on IDF operations and the movement of forces.
The Israeli citizens recruited by Hamas lived, among other places, in Rehovot, Lod and the Bedouin diaspora in the Negev.
One of the GSS's conclusions is that it is precisely among the second generation of family reunification that there is a willingness to give up the benefits of living in Israel, in relation to living conditions in Gaza. In Gaza.
This complexity causes some of them to work for Hamas more than Arabs whose two parents are Israelis.
Erez crossing into the Gaza Strip, Photo: Dudu Greenspan - Archive
These GSS figures join 12 different incidents in the last decade, in which descendants of family reunification were involved in terrorist attacks as aides or terrorists. Israeli citizenship was recruited as a terrorist to the Islamic Jihad infrastructure, for the purpose of attacking a banquet hall and abducting a soldier.
Coalition exercise
Meanwhile, about six months after the government failed to pass it, the Knesset plenum is expected to approve the Citizenship Law today on first reading.
However, the law will not only be passed by the coalition, but as a result of an unusual agreement reached by Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked with the opposition.
In light of Meretz and Ra'am's stubborn opposition to supporting the law, even though they are members of the coalition, Shaked clarified that she would pass the law despite their opposition.
Shaked initiated cooperation with MKs Simcha Rotman (Religious Zionism) and Avi Dichter (Likud), who proposed their own laws to halt the unification of mass families between Arabs on both sides of the Green Line.
According to the summary, today in the plenum, Meretz and RAAM members will be absent from the vote on the law initiated by Shaked, as well as from the vote on the laws of Dichter and Rotman. Both the coalition and the opposition will support the three laws, which will be discussed later in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Minister Shaked, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Interior Minister Shaked, who is leading the move, said yesterday at a cabinet meeting in response to GSS data that "the data on terrorist acts coming from descendants of family reunification is very disturbing.
These data are just another proof of the necessity of the Citizenship Law, which is a critical law for maintaining the security of the State of Israel and its fortification as a Jewish state.
I am determined to pass it and fight for the law, which has been a defensive wall for the State of Israel for 18 years. "
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