Ik heb mij er vaker over verbaasd hoe terroristen er vanuit Israelische gevangenissen in slagen om door te gaan met het organiseren van (zelfmoord)aanslagen. Israel heeft nu 7 Arabieren uit Oost Jeruzalem opgepakt en beschuldigd van het doorspelen van grote sommen geld aan gevangenen. Zij kunnen vrijelijk door heel Israel reizen, en sinds kort mogen Arabieren uit Jeruzalem en de rest van Israel ook de gebieden onder de Palestijnse Autoriteit bezoeken. Hoe die gevangenen met dat geld aanslagen organiseren, snap ik overigens nog niet helemaal, maar uit een en ander blijkt dat het regime in de gevangenissen niet zo heel erg strikt kan zijn en de controles niet waterdicht.
Er is overigens onlangs een wet aangenomen die het regime specifiek voor gedetineerden van Hamas versobert, in de hoop zo de druk op te voeren om een deal te sluiten over de vrijlating van Gilad Shalit. Ik heb zo mijn twijfels of dat zal werken, en alhoewel ik het sentiment erachter begrijp, dreig je jezelf zo ook naar het niveau van je vijanden te verlagen (al zullen de gevangenen in Israel nog steeds betere condities hebben dan Shalit, alleen al omdat bekend is waar ze zitten en ze bezocht kunnen worden door het Rode Kruis). Het tegengaan van de organisatie van aanslagen en andere ongein vind ik eerlijk gezegd een beter motief om het regime aan te scherpen.
RP
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The Jerusalem Post
Shin Bet: 7 gave terrorists funds
By YAAKOV LAPPIN AND JPOST.COM STAFF
05/24/2010 14:47
05/24/2010 14:47
Israeli security officials on Monday revealed more details about seven east Jerusalem residents accused of passing funds to jailed Hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners.
The suspected group leader, lawyer Shirin Isawiya, was arrested at a checkpoint outside Jerusalem on April 22, 2010 with $100,000 and NIS 53,000 in cash as well a USB key. On the USB key, security officials found documents from imprisoned leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Following Isawiya's arrest, the Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) discovered other members of the smuggling ring, including Shirin's brothers Madhat Isawiya, a 37 year-old Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine activist who was released from an Israeli prison in 2009, and 16 year-old Rafat Isawiya. Both brothers come from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya.
The others suspects caught in the investigation were Salim Abed al-Rahma, a post office manager in Atarot; a post office work in A-tor, near Jerusalem; Sufayeen Zabda, a lawyer who is said to have served as a courier from Gaza; and Malsem Hala'ila, who also was a courier from Gaza.
The couriers in the group are accused of transferring tens of thousands of dollars weekly from Hamas and Islamic Jihad affiliated charities in Gaza to Israel.
Security officials elaborated that the group of seven succeeded in funneling millions of shekels to security prisoners through postal bank accounts registered with both fake identity numbers and the numbers of deceased Gazan residents.
Prison regulations limit monthly funds transfers to prisoners to NIS 1300 per month.
"This will strike a serious blow to Hamas and Islamic Jihad and their attempts to coordinate terror activities from prison," a security official said.
The suspected group leader, lawyer Shirin Isawiya, was arrested at a checkpoint outside Jerusalem on April 22, 2010 with $100,000 and NIS 53,000 in cash as well a USB key. On the USB key, security officials found documents from imprisoned leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Following Isawiya's arrest, the Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) discovered other members of the smuggling ring, including Shirin's brothers Madhat Isawiya, a 37 year-old Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine activist who was released from an Israeli prison in 2009, and 16 year-old Rafat Isawiya. Both brothers come from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya.
The others suspects caught in the investigation were Salim Abed al-Rahma, a post office manager in Atarot; a post office work in A-tor, near Jerusalem; Sufayeen Zabda, a lawyer who is said to have served as a courier from Gaza; and Malsem Hala'ila, who also was a courier from Gaza.
The couriers in the group are accused of transferring tens of thousands of dollars weekly from Hamas and Islamic Jihad affiliated charities in Gaza to Israel.
Security officials elaborated that the group of seven succeeded in funneling millions of shekels to security prisoners through postal bank accounts registered with both fake identity numbers and the numbers of deceased Gazan residents.
Prison regulations limit monthly funds transfers to prisoners to NIS 1300 per month.
"This will strike a serious blow to Hamas and Islamic Jihad and their attempts to coordinate terror activities from prison," a security official said.
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