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Yousef Yasser Sweilam

Hezbollah operative indicted for planning kidnapping

Yousef Yasser Sweilam was apprehended by the Shin Bet before managing to implement orders to gather intel on the IDF and establish a terrorist unit in order carry out a kidnapping attack.

An indictment was submitted against 23-year-old Qalqilya resident Yousef Yasser Sweilam Thursday for planning to commit acts of terrorism, including kidnapping.

 

 

Sweilam was arrested as part of a joint operation by the IDF and the police and was transferred to Shin Bet custody to be interrogated. During the investigation, the Shin Bet discovered that Sweilam was recruited to the Hezbollah terror organization through Facebook.

 

Yousef Yasser Sweilam
Yousef Yasser Sweilam

 

He was instructed to open an email which contained an encryption software, through which he could stay in contact with a Hezbollah enforcer nicknamed "Abu Hasin."

 

Sweilam was also instructed to perform various missions, including photographing and collecting intelligence on IDF bases, checkpoints and other sites in the nearby city of Jerusalem.

 

In addition, Sweilam set about attempting to recruit jihadists and establish a terror cell in order to kidnap an Israeli citizen and transfer him to Lebanon.

 


פרסום ראשון: 03.09.17, 15:14
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