Israeli security forces say they have arrested a terror cell operating out of the Arab Israeli town of Jaljulia who were planning to kill an Israeli officer to avenge the recent killing of a Hamas terror chief in Gaza, the Shin Bet says.
At the heart of the plot are two brothers, Adam Ismail Muhammad Faki, 25, and Faras Ismail Muhammad Faki, 27. Adam Faki was reportedly recruited into Hamas during a visit to the Gaza Strip in December 2014 for a family wedding, where he underwent training.
In recent months he was asked to plan an attack on an Israeli officer to avenge the killing of Hamas’s Mazan Faqha, who was shot in March in an assassination the Gaza terror group blamed on Israel.
Faki bought two pistols and a silencer and was planning the attack, the Shin Bet says.
In total, seven people are detained for various roles in the plot.
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