ISRAEL REVOKES 200 WORK PERMITS FOR GAZANS AFTER BOMB SCARE

Thu 24 November 2022:

Israel has cancelled 200 of the roughly 15,500 work permits it had issued to Palestinians from the Gaza Strip following a bomb scare, according to the Shin Bet security service on Thursday.

The suspect, who was apprehended on October 30, acknowledged to interrogators that he had been recruited by relatives in a group Islamic Jihad to attack a bus in southern Israel in response to claims that a laborer was ready to carry out a blast, according to the Shin Bet.

He was trained on preparing improvised explosive devices by an explosives expert in the Gaza Strip, and began operating to collect materials for the assembly of a bomb during his entries to Israel, the Shin Bet said, adding that the materials were seized during his arrest.

It claimed that the offender had been charged by an Israeli court. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he has a designated attorney or what sort of plea he might take.

Israel’s responded by revoking about 200 workers’ licences.

“The attempt by terror groups to exploit the jobs of workers in Israel in order to carry out attacks endangers the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of residents of the Gaza Strip,” Defence Minister Benny Gantz tweeted.

Gantz, a member of Israel’s centrist outgoing administration, has pushed for increasing the number of admission permits to lessen Gaza’s extreme poverty and prevent war.

A dual blast that took place in Jerusalem on Wednesday left one young Israeli-Canadian dead and at least 14 others hurt. No one has yet claimed credit responsibility for the attack.

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