Gaza Strip: Security arrests longest running spy

[ 07/07/2011 - 02:45 PM ] 

GAZA, (PIC)-- Security services have arrested the longest running Israeli agent in the Gaza Strip, security sources said.

The agent, A.H., is in his fifties and has been spying for Israel for the past 23 years after returning from a neighboring Arab state, Al-Majd security site said, quoting sources.

The source said A.H. continued to cooperate with Israeli intelligence during this period. He also frequently travelled to the West Bank and Arab countries.

According to the sources, A.H. held several sensitive and prestigious positions in the former authority and had links with leading figures in one Palestinian organization. He also funded the organization’s activities and armed it before it carried out operations through fake cells monitored by Israeli intelligence.

A.H. provided Israel with sensitive information relating to the nature of his work in the former authority. He also played a significant role in the deaths of many resistance fighters and took part in military operations by the Israeli Special Forces and recruited several agents in Gaza and the West Bank giving them tasks and funds.

He did not turn himself in, the source said, but rather Gaza security services managed to arrest him early 2011 in a “complex” operation. Four other agents have been arrested based on A.H.’s confessions.

The agent was in contact with more than seven Israeli intelligence officers and met with several of them during tasks in Gaza and the West Bank and received a total of $17,000 from them.

The security services had given amnesty to agents in Gaza until the end of 2010 if they turned themselves in to authorities.

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