Report: Senior Hamas Commander, Israeli Informant Flees Gaza Aboard IDF Boat

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Israeli Navy soldiers seen on IDF (Israel Defense Force) ships, off the coast of Gaza, during Operation "Protective Edge" on July 28, 2014. The operation entered its 22nd day today, with 10 Israeli soldiers having been killed in a Hamas tunnel attack, and in a mortar attack which hit in the Southern Israeli Eshkol region yesterday. Gazan health officials put the death toll there at over 1,000, and Israel states hundreds of those killed are Hamas fighters. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Gaza operation would go on until the tunnel threat was stopped. Photo by Edi Israel/FLASH90 *** Local Caption *** ???? ????? ??? ?? ??? ???, ?? ?????? ???? ????? ???? ??? ???? ??? ??? ??? ???? ??? ????? ?????? ?????

A senior Hamas commander escaped from the Gaza Strip aboard an Israel Defense Forces boat on Saturday.

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The commander, from Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, is said to have commanded the terrorist organization’s naval commando unit, and is suspected in the Gaza Strip of collaborating with Israel, Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Saturday.

The report, based on Palestinian media sources, said the senior commander had escaped with a laptop containing “dangerous classified materials,” along with money and listening devices.

The sources also said that this was the second senior Hamas commander recently suspected of collaborating with Israel. The previous suspect, identified only as “Mohammed,” was in charge of the Palestinian factions’ networks in the Sajaiya neighborhood of Gaza and trained Hamas terrorists.

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According to the sources, the latest suspect began cooperating with Israel as early as 2009 and his alleged ties with Israel were revealed of late, when he asked his brother to collect money for him and leave it near a trash can. That brother was captured by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

The sources said that Hamas was “hysterical” in the light of the discovery, and launched a series of arrest raids of suspects.

The Channel 12 report comes on the heels of a news story published last week in the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper, Al-Ahbar, according to which Hamas revealed a “dangerous plot by Israeli intelligence services” to carry out attacks against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, and that that Hamas arrested a number of ISIS operatives planning to carry out suicide bombings Gaza, using explosive belts and booby-trapped motorcycles.


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John Smithson
John Smithson
3 years ago

Just like fauda!