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Hamas denies Shin Bet claims over West Bank operations
Published Wednesday 13/03/2013 (updated) 17/03/2013 17:30
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas on Wednesday denied claims by Israel's Shin Bet security agency that it is planning operations against Israel in the West Bank.

Shin Bet said Wednesday that Gaza's Interior Minister Fathi Hammad was behind efforts to launch attacks from the West Bank, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Interior Ministry spokesman Islam Shahwan said the Israeli claims were related to a Hamas crackdown on collaborators.

"Accusing the Minister of Interior Fathi Hammad of planning operations in the West Bank is an attempt to avert the eyes of the public off Hamas' campaign against collaborators," Shahwan told Ma'an.

He added that Israel's intelligence agency had telephoned some of its informers in Gaza and told them not to hand themselves in. On Tuesday, Hamas said it had a list of collaborators working in Gaza and offered an amnesty to those who surrendered by April 11.

According to Shahwan, several informers have already given themselves up.

The Shin Bet said Wednesday that Hamas was setting up "terrorist cells" in the West Bank and recruiting militants to plant bombs, kidnap a soldier and launch rockets.

"The activities of Hammad -- one of the senior leaders of Hamas in Gaza, and an interior minister who is obligated to maintain quiet -- is a gross violation of the ceasefire agreement.

"This also illustrates the extent of the involvement by senior Hamas members in setting up terror attacks against targets in the West Bank and Israel, despite their commitments to Egypt to uphold a truce," the Shin Bet said.
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1 ) Colin Wright / USA
13/03/2013 21:18
If Hamas actually has this list, Israel's network is doomed. It's a matter of the balance of terror. The informer can only remain useful so long as he remains with the target population. So long as he does that, nothing Israel can do to him can possibly outweigh what Hamas can do to him. And if Israel isn't able to terrify people into submission, what possible appeal can she make? She burned all her boats long ago.
2 ) ABE / USA
13/03/2013 23:24
I will bet that ISRAEL'S "network" is not Doomed! what a silly thing to say.
3 ) Yehuda Solomon / Israel
14/03/2013 03:51
@1), No-o-o-o-o-o-o ... You (as usual) fail to understand how this game of spy/counterspy works over here. (You must be an older American. I've talked with other, older American tourists who've come to Israel who, when discussing our security, are so confused and mistaken in what they believe ... it's truly amazing what and how the hell they think. After they leave, THEN they understand much better.) To straighten you out: Every decent intelligence agency makes contingent plans in (cont.)
4 ) Yehuda Solomon / Israel
14/03/2013 04:08
case of adversarial results (obviously). So, even though, no, I'm not a part of our Shin Bet or Mossad let me assure you I HAVE talked with reliable sources who are connected with them and can say NOBODY works on maintaining a balance of terror. Preventing terror is NOT done by balancing terror (crazy as hell to think that). If exposed, our network isn't doomed; they know the risk with every spy they recruit and the recruits damn well know that, too. Just because an informer (who (cont.)
5 ) Yehuda Solomon / Israel
14/03/2013 04:20
remains undiscovered) is at a prime advantage if embedded in the target population, it doesn't mean a damn thing to even consider what the hell Hamas can do to him compared to what we could. Submission by terrorism is a head-up-your-ass-backwards appeal (and plan) for 100% failure. Forget about it.
6 ) Outsider / EU
14/03/2013 08:33
An amnesty to flush out collaborators was long overdue. By the way, Shin Bet does not always "appeal" for collaborators, it also uses blackmail and coercion.
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