5 Israelis linked to ISIS arrested: Israeli police and Shin Bet security services recently foiled a plot by five Arab Israeli citizens under the banner of the Islamic State terrorist group to detonate a car bomb at Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Mall. Five men from Tayybeh in central Israel formed a terrorist cell linked to ISIS, a radical terrorist group based in Iraq and Syria. These Israeli people who attacked are actually Palestinians, who are living in Israel.
In fact, Israel’s Shin Bet security service says that Palestinians in northern Israel were chatting online about how to plant a car bomb that would bring down skyscrapers in the city center. The five were arrested after a month-long undercover investigation with the help of Lahav 433 Serious Crime Unit. The leaders of the cell have been named as Mahmood Azam and Ibrahim Sheikh Yusuf. He recruited three other people – Sajid Masrawa, Abdullah Baransi and Abdel Karim Baransi – into his cell.
Were in contact with ISIS agents
Police and Shin Bet said the five had studied footage of terror attacks in Syria and discussed the amount of explosives needed to bring down Tel Aviv’s iconic Azrieli towers. The official statement of the police said that Azam and Yusuf were in touch with ISIS agents and were planning to travel abroad to meet the operatives of the terrorist group. This information came to the police, after which with the help of precise and effective intelligence operations, the planning of this blast was exposed and it was stopped in its beginning.
One dead, 10 others injured
One border police officer was killed and at least 10 others were injured in the firing by these Israeli terrorists, after which the police said that it will use all available means to protect its citizens. On the other hand, an Arab Israeli man attacked Dwar with a knife in the central city of Hadera, injuring six people, one of whom died a day later.