In the video: the central unit in the Tha district revealed a criminal organization that planned an assassination using a drone with a powerful charge (police spokeswoman)
Seven suspects planned to harm a person in the Jaffa area using a drone attached to an explosive device - the police said today (Thursday).
The suspects were arrested at the end of last month and this week, when the investigation against them was completed, they informed the police that they intend to file an indictment against them and a request for detention until the end of the proceedings.
The investigation was opened in the middle of last December, after a foreign resident from the Philippines who was riding his bicycle on Yerushalayim Avenue 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 resident contacted the police 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 an 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 District Attorney's Office, which began an intelligence activity, which raised the suspicion that it was a means of attack prepared to harm a person as part of a criminal conflict, and led to the surveillance of a number of suspects residents of Kfar Qasim.
Seven were arrested on suspicion of the assassination attempt.
From the police records (Photo: Israel Police Spokesperson)
During the investigation, the police noticed four suspects from the organization, arriving in the middle of the night from their city to a house in Jaffa.
After that, the police officers who were stationed near the house noticed a drone in the air.
Due to the fear that it was an armed drone, an order was given to break into the house, and the detectives arrested the four suspects on the spot, and another suspect, a resident of Jaffa who lives there.
In a search near the place of the arrest, the investigators located two sets of drones, cell phones, and near the house in a bag, explosive devices and explosives were found.
The five, Yahya Abu Jaber, 35 years old, Omar Zarzour, 30 years old, Ahmed Frij, 31 years old, and Omar Taha, 25 years old, are residents of Kfar Qasim, and Muhammad Nadi, 31 years old, a resident of Jaffa, were arrested and transferred to the police for questioning, and later two more suspects, residents of Kfar Qasim, were arrested. 37-year-old Noor Zarzour and 38-year-old Khaled Zarzour, who returned from Morocco, on suspicion of involvement in the events.
The detention of all seven has been extended several times 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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