After an undercover investigation, a criminal organization of seven suspects was revealed who planned to harm a person in the Jaffa area, using a drone attached to a powerful explosive device.
The suspects were arrested as part of an operational activity by the Israel Defense Forces, and this week, with the completion of the investigation, a resident's statement was submitted in their case regarding the intention to file an indictment against them today and a request for detention until the end of the proceedings.
The investigation was opened on 12/14/22, after a foreign citizen from the Philippines who was riding his bicycle on Jerusalem Boulevard in Jaffa, noticed a drone with its lights on resting on a low stone wall, with an object underneath that he suspected was an explosive device.
The subject contacted the police officers who were at the checkpoint in the Jaffa area, informing them of the drone being found, and a police saboteur who was called to the scene determined that it was a powerful standard explosive device consisting of an explosive brick with a remote activation mechanism attached to it.
The investigation of the incident was assigned to the Tel Aviv police, who began a covert intelligence and technological activity, which raised the suspicion that it was a means of attack prepared to harm a person as part of a criminal conflict.
Eliminated an attempted criminal attack using a drone
Photo: Police Spokesperson
The investigation led the IMR investigators to closely monitor a number of suspected residents of Kfar Qassem. On 12/28/22, during the undercover investigation, the IMR officers noticed that four suspects from the organization in Kfar Qassem arrived near midnight from Kfar Qassem to Beit Bif.
An operational force of the Israel Defense Forces was deployed near the house, when suddenly the police noticed a drone in the air. Because of the fear that it was an armed drone, an order was given to break into the house, and the detectives arrested the four suspects from Kfar Qasim, and another suspect, a resident of Jaffa who lives there.
In a search near the place of the arrest, the detectives found two sets of drones, cell phones, and near the house in a bag they found explosive devices and explosives.
The five, Yahya Abu Jaber, 35 years old, Omar Zarzour, 30 years old, Ahmed Frij, 31 years old, and Omar Taha, 25 years old, residents of Kfar Qasim, and Muhammad Nadi, 31 years old, from Jaffa, were arrested and taken for questioning at the Attorney General's office, and two more suspects, residents of Kfar Qasim Noor, were later arrested. 37-year-old Tzarzur and 38-year-old Khaled Tzarzur who returned from Morocco, on suspicion of involvement in the events.
The arrest of the seven has been extended from time to time, and today the prosecutor's office is expected to submit an indictment in their case and a request for detention until the end of the proceedings.
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