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Report: Men involved in terror plot worked for British Consulate
Telegraph says two Palestinian suspects in plot to fire missile during Israeli premier league soccer match worked as maintenance men at UK consulate in Sheikh Jarrah; according to report, they purchased weapons for main suspects
Two Hamas members who were arrested on suspicion of being involved in a plot to fire a missile at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium during an Israeli premier league soccer match were employed as maintenance men by the British Consulate General, the Telegraph reported Monday night.
According to the British daily, Israel told the Foreign Office in London that the two men - Mohammed Hamada and BIlal Bakhatan - were charged with membership in a terrorist organization and with supplying weapons to the main suspects in the case.
British Consulate in Sheikh Jarrah (Photo: Haim Tzach)
Hamada is the cousin of one of those charged with planning the rocket attack.
Israeli officials told the Telegraph the men’s arrests had “no connection to their work at the consulate.”
The British Consulate is located in east Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
A British Foreign Office spokesman told the Telegraph that security and vetting procedures were being reviewed.
According to a Shin Bet investigation, the two main suspects in the terror plot - Moussa Hamada of Sur Baher and Bassam Omri of Beit Safafa – began planning the terrorist activity in Jerusalem after the IDF's operation in Gaza.
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