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| Homepage |  | Archive | | Press Releases | | 2002 | | December | | In early November 2002, the ISA arrested Ahmed Rageh Ahmed Aviti, approximately 40, who came to the Gaza Strip from Lebanon along with other Palestinian Authority personnel in 1994. |
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In early November 2002, the ISA arrested Ahmed Rageh Ahmed Aviti, approximately 40, who came to the Gaza Strip from Lebanon along with other Palestinian Authority personnel in 1994. |
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In early November 2002, the ISA arrested Ahmed Rageh Ahmed Aviti, approximately 40, who came to the Gaza Strip from Lebanon along with other Palestinian Authority personnel in 1994. |
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In early November 2002, the ISA arrested Ahmed Rageh Ahmed Aviti,
approximately 40, who came to the Gaza Strip from Lebanon along with
other Palestinian Authority personnel in 1994. In 1999, Aviti received
permission to being his wife and children from Lebanon to his home in
the Gaza Strip. Aviti works as an aeronautical engineer at the
Deihaniye airport in the Gaza strip.
Aviti admitted to his ISA investigators that on 24.2.2001 he left to
perform the Haj in Mecca as part of an official delegation from the Gaza
Strip. During his stay in Saudi Arabia, Aviti met with a Hizballah
militant who recruited him as an agent for the organization in the Gaza
Strip in order to conduct terrorist actions against Israel. The
militant claimed that Hizballah was interested in assisting the
Palestinians in their fight against Israel.
It should be pointed out that the terrorist organizations in general,
and Hizballah in particular, are exploiting the departure of
Palestinians - with the approval of the state of Israel - on the Haj to
Mecca in order to recruit agents against Israel.
Aviti added that he had been questioned by the Hizballah militant and
gave him information on IDF actions in the Gaza Strip. Aviti noted that
he had been nicknamed "Ili" and had been given a telephone number in
Lebanon of a Hizballah militant nicknamed "Rimon" along with
instructions to contact him when he returned to Israel.
On 16.3.2002, Aviti returned to the Gaza Strip and made telephone
contact with "Rimon," his Hizballah operative. Aviti was asked to leave
for Lebanon, apparently for military training and to receive orders for
missions against Israel. Before arriving in Lebanon, Aviti traveled to
Jordan under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority to study to
become a pilot. Aviti noted that several of his communications with
Hizballah occurred from his office at the Palestinian airport at
Deihaniye. Aviti claims that his connections with Hizballah ceased in
May 2002; however, on 9.10.2002, he again left for Lebanon. On his
return to Israel he was arrested by ISA officials.
Aviti added that before his arrival in the Gaza Strip in 1994, he
underwent military training in the framework of the Fatah organization.
Aviti used the skills he acquired to train Hamas terrorists and worked
to improve the capabilities of the "Al Banah" missile. In addition
Aviti aided the Palestinian Authority in its preparations for conflict
with Israeli forces, including supervising bodies in the Palestinian
Authority in digging tunnels between built-up areas, armored combat and
activating bombs etc.
Ahmed Aviti has been indicted.
This event is one of a long list of attempts by the Hizballah to
infiltrate Israel and the territories by any means in order to increase
terrorist activity against Israel.
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