Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says information revealed earlier today by the Shin Bet suggesting a planned coup by Hamas in the West Bank was “a grave threat to the unity of the Palestinian people and its future,” NRG reports.
The Shin Bet said earlier that, along with the IDF, it uncovered and successfully disbanded a West Bank- and Jerusalem-based Hamas cell, which had planned to topple Abbas and take control of the West Bank.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas looks on as he meets with members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on July 22, 2014, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (photo credit: AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)
The large-scale operation to thwart the plan, in which 93 Hamas operatives were arrested, took place between May and August 2014, according to the national security agency, but was only released for publication today.
The Hamas cell, which the Shin Bet says operated under the instruction of Hamas leadership in Turkey, had plotted to perpetrate a series of attacks on Israel and thereby destabilize the security situation.
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