‘The level of their awareness about that Intelligence Corps base in the western Negev slipped us … they knew exactly what they wanted to achieve.’ Interrogations with Hamas Nukhba terrorists and recovered documents reveal the extent to which Hamas had mapped out IDF bases and civilian areas in the south before the October 7th massacre. Unit 504 of Israel’s Intelligence Division reveals that Hamas terrorist commanders gathered intelligence on IDF activity and locations as well as detailed information about communities in the south and trained and instructed their terrorists accordingly. Nukhba terrorists knew security vulnerabilities, the precise locations of dining…
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Israeli police and IDF troops have thwarted a large-scale attempt to smuggle 137 firearms into Israel from Jordan, marking the largest weapons bust ever on the Jordanian border. The successful operation was the culmination of months of surveillance by the police’s Magen anti-smuggling unit, which had been tracking a gun smuggling ring responsible for numerous attempts to transport weapons into Israel from Jordan. The breakthrough occurred last Thursday when members of the Magen unit, positioned near the southern town of Tzofar, detected an effort by the ring to move weapons across the border. Troops were dispatched to intercept a vehicle…