The Shin Bet security agency reveals it has uncovered a Hamas plot in which the group used fake social media profiles to apparently task Israelis to deliver weapons to it’s operatives for attacks in Israel, an effort which began before the war in the Gaza Strip.
According to the agency, the operation was carried out by Hamas’s so-called West Bank headquarters, a unit involved in advancing attacks against Israel from the West Bank.
On December 18, IDF troops raided a site in the Gaza Strip belonging to the unit, seizing documents and computers that revealed the group’s efforts to carry out attacks from the West Bank, the agency says.
One of the documents revealed that Hamas operatives in Gaza maintained contact with Jewish Israelis from the Jerusalem area. In September 2023, the victims were tasked by the Hamas operatives to carry out deliveries in Israel and the West Bank, according to the Shin Bet.
Several other Jewish Israelis were also in contact with the Hamas operatives using fake social media profiles, which the Shin Bet says were posing as Israeli expats and looking to have items delivered.
The Shin Bet says the Facebook profiles published posts in various groups looking for delivery people in all areas of the country in exchange for payment.
After initial contact, the Shin Bet says the conversation moved over to WhatsApp, with the Hamas operatives instructing the victims on the delivery tasks. The Hamas operatives never called and only used text-based messaging, the agency says.
The victims were tasked with delivering items, receiving cash, purchasing gifts, and leaving them at various addresses without coordinating with a recipient, according to the Shin Bet. Among the locations where the victims dropped off gifts were a synagogue, a cemetery, and the doorstep of several homes, it says.
The Shin Bet has assessed that the Hamas operatives sought to train the victims to deliver items, to later take advantage of them to deliver weapons or explosive devices to terror operatives in Israel, or place them in public areas and other sites the terror group wished to target.
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