It took eight years for agents of Israel’s Shin Bet secret service to discover the whereabouts of Juma Ibrahim Abu Ghanima. a Jewish teenager who crossed the Gaza border to join Hamas in 2016. But in the end they managed to stop him. In fact, it was Abu Ghanima himself who came to them involuntarily.
According to Israeli Justice Ministry information collected by The Times of Israel, the man is Juma Ibrahim Abu Ghanima an Israeli Bedouin who crossed the Gaza Strip in 2016 and joined the terrorist group Hamas, for whom Among other things, he carried out espionage activities. A month ago he tried to cross the border back into Israel, but was discovered and arrested by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Juma Ibrahim Abu Ghanima, 26, a resident of Hashem Zana in the northern Negev, sneaked into Gaza in July 2016, contacted a Hamas operative and asked to join the military wing of the terrorist group. He was brought in for questioning by Hamas members, who, according to the indictment, told them the location of IDF bases in southern Israel.
After three months of waiting in the houses of Hamas activist Abu Ghanima began his military training in one of his cellsincluding training with the terrorist group’s elite Nukhba force, which simulated attacks on Israeli cities and the capture of army posts
While in Gaza, Abu Ghanima conducted several surveillance operations along the border between the two territories and fired shots at the border. He tried to return to Israel last December Spy for Hamas and recruit other militantsand joining a criminal gang in Israel to further the terrorist group’s plans.
However, prosecutors also allege that Abu Ghanima was detained by Hamas for two years in 2021 for “violating the restrictions imposed on him.”
After Israel launched its military campaign in response to the Hamas attacks on October 7, all prisoners in the prison where he was being held were released on December 7, 2023 due to IDF attacks nearby.
Three days later, Abu Ghanima attempted to return to Israel, where he was arrested by IDF forces. He was then taken for questioning by the Shin Bet security service.
Abu Ghanima was accused of several serious security crimes, including conspiring to support the enemy in his war against Israel, supporting the enemy in the war, Providing information to the enemy with the intent to harm the security of the stateMembership in a terrorist organization, training for terrorist purposes, use of weapons for terrorist purposes and illegal departure.
The Israel Defense Forces more than say so 1,000 terror suspects have been captured in Gaza since the war began, and many more have been interrogated and released, according to The Times of Israel.
