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Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/08/international1443EST0498.DTL
Hizballah Influence Grows Among Palestinians, Arab Israelis
(AP/San Francisco Chronicle) Israel has indicted two of its Arab citizens for allegedly training with Hizballah to carry out suicide bombings, in the latest sign that the Lebanese guerrilla group is becoming a main sponsor of militants fighting Israel. The Shin Bet says that since the beginning of 2003, six different Hizballah cells have been discovered among Israeli Arabs. That is in addition to Israeli intelligence estimates that many Palestinian militant cells in the northern part of the West Bank receive funding and take orders from Hizballah. Hizballah gives as much as $25,000 each for Palestinians to buy weapons and explosives to carry out attacks against Israel, Palestinian militants said. Hizballah constitutes "the major threat coming from outside" the country, said Daniel Seaman, a government spokesman.