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Israel: Hamas planned attack on Lieberman

November 21, 2014 at 12:18 pm

Israel’s security service, Shin Bet, revealed yesterday evening that it discovered a Hamas plot to assassinate the country’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman during the latest assault on Gaza this summer.

Jerusalem Post reported that four Palestinians from Bethlehem have been charged in a military court to planning to attack the foreign minister’s convoy.

The newspaper citing sources from Shin Bet as saying that the three men arrested were: Ibrahim Zir, 37, his brother, Ziad, 35, and another man named Adnan Tsabich, 31.Claiming that the group planned to purchase a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher and attack the minister’s convoy while he was travelling in his car.

Ibrahim is said to be a senior Hamas activist from the village of Harmala, near Bethlehem, who previously served time in Israeli jails for being a member of Hamas.

“Also involved, according to the Shin Bet, was a Hamas activist from Bethlehem named Yusuf Alsheich, to whom Zir had turned for assistance in obtaining an RPG,” Haaretz reported.

Jerusalem Post said the men confessed to attempting to assassinate the minister after undergoing lengthy interrogations, noting that the operation was due to take place in August during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.