Israel’s domestic security agency said on Wednesday it had thwarted a plot by the son of the chief of the lebanese militant group Hezbollah to recruit Palestinians to attack Israel.
The Shin Bet agency and the Israeli military said Jawad Nasrallah, the son of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, solicited a Palestinian online who recruited other Palestinians into a militant cell.
Another Hezbollah operative instructed the cell about using explosives, training suicide bombers, gathering intelligence on security forces and purchasing weapons, they said. An Israeli military court indicted five Palestinians from the area of Tulkarem, in the West Bank, who were planning a shooting attack against Israeli forces with Hezbollah backing.