Hezbollah cell planned attacks in the West Bank — Shin Bet

A terror cell based in Tulkarem in the West Bank and recruited and funded by Lebanon-based Hezbollah planned to carry out a shooting attack and suicide bombings against Israelis, but was stopped by a joint operation of the Shin Bet security service and the army, officials announced on Wednesday.

Jawad Nasrallah, son of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, recruited the cell via social media, the Shin Bet said.

Hezbollah is considered Israel’s most menacing threat, according to IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, though in recent years the majority of its efforts have come from Israel’s northern borders with Lebanon and Syria. The cell thwarted in Tulkarem was “very irregular,” the Shin Bet said in a statement.

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