(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - The Shin Bet security service arrested 22 Hamas operatives in the Ramallah area last week, responsible for shooting attacks that killed 10 Israelis in two years. According to the confessions of some of the detained men, they were planning to kill members of an IDF patrol and cart away their bodies as bargaining chips. Concerned that the get-away car wouldn't have enough space for all the corpses, the Hamas men intended to decapitate some of the bodies. For more than six months, Hamas' military wing in Ramallah has been the driving force behind the organization in the West Bank. IDF anti-terror strikes against Hamas cells in the Hebron and Nablus regions left the Ramallah group, headed by Sheikh Ibrahim Hamad, in the lead position.
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