Gazan indicted for acquiring equipment for elite Hamas unit

A Gazan man is indicted by the Beersheba District Court on multiple counts of aiding the Hamas terrorist organization. According to the indictment he imported diving equipment for a Hamas elite naval unit from Egypt and from Israel.

Abd Saqallah, who owns two stores and a sewing factory in the Gaza Strip, purchased the equipment from the Italian firm Cressi. Included in the shipment were hundreds of flippers, scuba masks and wet suits. Wet suits require a special permit to be imported into the Gaza Strip.

Hamas naval commandos, seen in a still image from a propaganda video released by the terror group during Israels Operation Protective Edge, in the summer of 2014. (Screen capture)

Saqallah allegedly imported this gear through smuggling tunnels from Egypt and sold it to Hamas’s Nukhba naval commando unit.

Saqallah is also accused of selling sports gear to Hamas operatives, including weight training equipment. He allegedly sold them gym equipment worth $30,000 last year and sports clothing worth tens of thousands of shekel to the Nukhba unit.