Fatah May Have Informed Israel about Hamas Tunnel

An Arabic-language website published documents it claims were sent via Ramallah intelligence to Israel, revealing Hamas’ tunnels’ locations.

By Dalit Halevy

 

Arabic-language website awraqq.com has published two documents that it says were sent by Palestinian Authority (PA) intelligence to Israel’s intelligence organizations, and which expose the location of two tunnels that Hamas dug from Gaza into Israel.

This information is what made it possible for Israel to prevent the tunnels from being used for terror attacks, according to the website.

According to the report, one tunnel was prepared by the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds Brigades, and the other by the armed wing of Hamas – the Al-Qassam Brigades.

 

The documents read as follows:

 

Top Secret Document (1)

Date: April 16, 2013

Subject: Al Quds Brigades have completed the construction work on a 
strategic tunnel.
According to information that we received, the Al-Quds Brigades have 
completed [digging] a strategic tunnel that belongs to them.
This tunnel begins at the juice factory owned by the French European 
company and it passes next to the generators of the Energy Company south
of the eastern cemetery (the Cemetery of the Al-Shuhada).
According to the information in our possession, a man named Saker 
Abed is the supervisor of the work in the tunnel, and the tunnel is 
considered to be strategic and is intended for future operations in 
accordance with instructions that will be received from senior elements
in the Al Quds Brigades.
The digging operations started at the juice factory because most of 
the guards there activists of the Al-Quds Brigades, and the previous 
commander of security at the factory is a man named Shakel Al-Jaabari, 
and the present commander of security is a man from the Al-Mubich family
and is also an active member of the Al Quds Brigades.

 

Top Secret Document (2)

Date: April 16, 2013

Subject: Al Qassam Brigades preparing for operation of abducting 
soldiers
According to information in our possession, the Al Qassam Brigades 
have completed digging a strategic tunnel, work on which began in 2008.
The tunnel begins at the Al-Zana area in eastern Khan Younes and 
reaches the Israeli border on the military route that is behind the 
security fence.
At the end of the tunnel is an opening [hatch] that can be lifted with
a jack and special batteries.
According to initial information, it is reasonable to assume that the 
peration will be carried out by causing a military jeep to slide down to 
the opening of the tunnel and then overtaking its occupants.
The people supervising the tunnel work are: Raed Saad and 
Muhammad al-Sanwar.

 

The documents are visible at the awraqq.com website.

Fatah, which is headed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, is a rival terrorist organization to Hamas. While Fatah and Abbas’s PA control parts of Judea and Samaria, Hamas took over Gaza in 2007.

 

View original Arutz Sheva publication at: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/173562#.UnaioRCPlgh