Failed Tel Aviv suicide bombing planned by Hamas Turkish headquarters, new report says
The failed suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in August was carried out under the direction of Hamas headquarters in🌌 Turkey, according to the findings of a joint Israel Police and Israel Security Agency investigation published on Tuesday.
Indictments against eight terrorists arrested during the investigation we♏re set to be filed later in the day.
According to authorities, 🥀the eight maintained contact with Abada Bilal, a sen൲ior Hamas official in Turkey who directed the execution of the attack.
The investigation also found that one of the terrorists traveled several times to Turkey, where Hamas provided♔ him with funding for explosives and training on assembling bombs.
On Aug. 18, a powe⭕rf൲ul explosion rocked Tel Aviv’s Lehi Street.
One passerby was moderately wounded by shrapnel, and damage was caus𓃲ed to buildings a𝓡nd property.
The “military wings” of the and Islamic Jihad terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the attack, with the former vowing to car🍨ry out suicide attacks “as long as Israel continues its massac𒁃re and policy of assassinations in Gaza.”
The investigatioꦍn found that the bomber, Jaafar Muna, who was killed in the blast, was a Hamas operative from Na��blus.
Authorities said on Tuesday that an additional indictment was fi🅘led against a resident of Beit Hanina in eastern Jerusalem, who transported Muna from the Israeli capital to Tel Aviv.
During the investigation, security forces uncovered Hamas infrastructure in the Nablus area and seized two ready-to-use ꦰTATP (triacetone triperoxide) explosive devices weighing about 4 kilograms (9 pounds), along with approximately 4 kilograms of TATP intended for further attacks. Additionally, 111,000 shekels ($29,668) that had been trans🌄ferred from Hamas HQ in Turkey to the local terror cell were confiscated.
“The findings of this investigation clearly indic🍃ate the establishment of in Turkey and their extensive efforts abroad to incite violence and carry out bombings in Israel,” according to Israeli authorities.
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In July, Israeli security forces foiled a significant terrorist plot orchestrated by in Turkey an🧸d involving students from Birzeit University in Samaria.
The operation, a collaborative effort of the ISA, Israel Defense Forces and a speciali🍨zed police unit, led to the arrest of several suspects and the seizure of weapons and funds earmarked for the attack.
Earlier this ye𓆉ar, Israeli authorities thwarted a large-scale suicide bombing attack planned by Hamas’s terrorist headquarters in , the ISA revealed in J🧸une.
The agency said its forces had captured Anas Shurman—a Palestinian💎 originally from Tulkarem who lives in Jordan—during a March 15 raid in the central Samaria terrorist stronghold 🧸of Nablus.
Interrogations revealed that three months earlier, Shurman had been🅷 🌳recruited to carry out a suicide bombing by Imad Abid, a Hamas operative living in Turkey who was born in Judea and Samaria.
Tur🍸kish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has long harbored members of Hamas. In 2022, the terrorist organization marked the 10thꦆ anniversary of the official establishment of its offices in Istanbul.
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, in a 2021 report, said that Hamas’s headquarters in Istanbul🐷 has directed hu💖ndreds of terrorist attacks against Israelis and laundered millions of dollars.
In April, Ankara invited&n꧒bsp;, the head of Hamas’s political bureau who was subsequently by Israel in Tehran, to stay in the cou𒀰ntry, praising him as a “leader of the Palestinian struggle.”
