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The Shin Bet revealed today (Wednesday) the activities of Hamas in Gaza, which is trying to carry out attacks throughout the West Bank by impersonating business entities and recruiting young residents of the territories for wages. According to the Shin Bet's statement, the young people received inquiries from fictitious profiles on social networks, who offered them work as couriers .
In practice, the young people transferred money intended for terrorism, or packages with ammunition - without knowing about it.
According to the announcement, the investigation is being conducted in recent weeks by the Shin Bet together with the IDF and the police.
The activity is conducted by operatives of the "Hegada Headquarters", a Hamas body in Gaza run by the deportees of the Gilad Shalit deal.
They are headed by one of them, Farah Hamed, 46 years old.
One of the fake profiles (photo: Shin Bet)
According to the Shin Bet, the activists usually hide their true identity and pretend to be business companies and various entities. They then recruit young Palestinians in the West Bank for paid business "work", and send them on a variety of tasks such as transferring funds intended for the purchase of weapons for an attack and delivering packaged packages, which contain weapons or ammunition All this, without the messengers being aware, in most cases, that they are transferring weapons or are involved in terrorist activity.
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