Man held for aiding Palestinian illegal workers to enter Israel

Police arrest a Bedouin man, 25, on suspicion of running a network transporting Palestinians into Israel illegally.

The man, a resident of Lakiya in the Negev, allegedly kept in contact with a Palestinian man who coordinated the smuggling of Palestinians across the Green Line.

The vast majority of Palestinians who sneak across daily do so in search of work, but a number of terrorists, including two cousins who carried out the Sarona shooting in Tel Aviv in May that killed four and wounded 41, have also used the smuggling networks to reach Israeli territory.

The man is suspected of arranging drivers, several of whom have been detained in recent weeks, to take the Palestinians to workplaces and towns across the south.