Shin Bet uncovers Hamas terror cell

The Shin Bet security service, along with the IDF and Israel Police, say they discovered a Hamas terror cell in December 2015, whose members were from Jerusalem and Hebron, which was planning to kidnap and murder Israelis in order to negotiate for their release or the release of their bodies, similar to the kidnapping and murders of the three Jewish teenage boys in June 2014.

From the Shin Bet’s investigation of the Hamas operatives, the cell was in the advanced planning stages and had even begun preparing the place where they would store the bodies of the kidnapped person or people.

During the investigation, the Shin Bet discovered that the cell was made of up six people — three of them Israeli residents, living in Jerusalem, and the other three from Hebron.

— Judah Ari Gross