{"id":19508,"date":"2025-04-10T18:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=19508"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:10:27","slug":"israel-dismantles-major-hamas-terror-finance-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/israel-dismantles-major-hamas-terror-finance-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Dismantles Major Hamas Terror Finance Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a cross-border intelligence operation, Israel\u2019s Shin Bet security agency and national police uncovered a sophisticated financial network used to transfer millions of shekels from Hamas operatives in Turkey to terror elements in the West Bank. Six Israeli Arab citizens were arrested and indicted on Thursday by the State Prosecutor\u2019s Cyber Unit for their role in the operation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Network Linking the Galilee, Turkey, and Jenin<\/strong><br \/>\nOver the past month, six suspects\u2014all Arab citizens of Israel\u2014were taken into custody. The investigation revealed that Fadi Arabi, 33, from the town of Arraba in northern Israel, coordinated a financial pipeline between his brother Nissim Arabi in Turkey and Wajdi Saadi, a Hamas operative from Jenin currently residing in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The three built an elaborate cash smuggling system through which they funneled funds\u2014amounting to millions of shekels\u2014into Samaria.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19510\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-2.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-2-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IDF troops near an armored vehicle in Jenin during recent operations| Photo: Nasser Ishtayeh \/ Flash90<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The money was physically transferred by local couriers from the northern Israeli town of Nof HaGalil, and later from Acre. Together, the suspects allegedly moved over 3 million shekels, fully aware that the funds originated from Hamas and were destined to support terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19511\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-3.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-3-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-3-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-3-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/funding-3-2048x1362.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv| Photo: Avshalom Shoshani \/ Flash90<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Indictments for Contact with Foreign Agents and Terror Finance<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter a lengthy joint investigation by the Shin Bet and the Police&#8217;s Lahav 433\u2019s cyber unit, the State Attorney\u2019s Office filed serious charges against the suspects. They include offenses of contact with a foreign agent and handling terrorist property.<\/p>\n<p>A senior security official described the case as a rare and complex terror finance scheme involving Israeli citizens acting as a \u201clifeline\u201d for Hamas in Turkey. The official noted the operation\u2019s success in disrupting a key funding channel for terror infrastructure in Judea and Samaria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Israeli Arabs indicted after Shin Bet and Israeli police expose millions funneled from Hamas operatives in Turkey to terror infrastructure in the West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,6,65],"tags":[1477,1857,1702,1528,4115,3577],"class_list":["post-19508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idf","category-security","category-world","tag-hamas","tag-israel-police","tag-samaria","tag-shin-bet","tag-terror-infrastructure-funding","tag-turkey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Israel Dismantles Major Hamas Terror Finance Network - 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