This week, Israel’s domestic security agency, the Shin Bet, announced
indictments against two West Bank Palestinians allegedly recruited by agents of
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) through Hezbollah to plan and
carry out terror attacks on Israeli targets. Israeli officials suspect that the
defendants, Yusuf Mansour and Maarsil Mansour, had agreed to transport weapons
and military equipment, gather intelligence on the Israeli military, and
recruit others in the West Bank to carry out attacks.





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Israeli Security Foils IRGC, Hezbollah Recruitment Operation



(New York, N.Y.) — This week, Israel’s domestic security agency, the Shin Bet,
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against two West Bank Palestinians allegedly recruited by agents of Iran’s
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) through Hezbollah to plan and carry
out terror attacks on Israeli targets. Israeli officials suspect that the
defendants, Yusuf Mansour and Maarsil Mansour, had agreed to transport weapons
and military equipment, gather intelligence on the Israeli military, and
recruit others in the West Bank to carry out attacks.



Their alleged recruiters, Hudah Mahaneh and Haj Mahmed Radwan, presented
themselves as members of Hezbollah and aredocumented
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to be operatives of the IRGC’s Quds Force, which is tasked with external
operations and oversight of Iran-supported paramilitary groups. Hezbollah
primarily relies on religious devotion and opposition to Israel as recruitment
tools. According to Israeli authorities, Yusuf Mansour and Maarsil Mansour
communicated with and received payments from members of Hezbollah via
encryption software and a dedicated email address.



The arrests reveal a growing trend of Iran rallying
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its proxies, including Hezbollah, to launch attacks against Israel.Hezbollah
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anti-U.S. and anti-Israel agenda. Since Israel’s evacuation from southern
Lebanon in May 2000, Hezbollah has conducted numerous cross-border raids,
including the July 12, 2006,attack
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that killed eight Israeli soldiers and sparked the Second Lebanon War. Since
then, Hezbollah has amassed a stockpile of tens of thousands of missiles from
Iran, launched missile and drone attacks against Israel, and worked to build a
sophisticatedtunnel system
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between Lebanon and Israel.



Despite the group’s 40-year track record of terrorism, the international
community has failed to effectively address the threat of Hezbollah. While
countries like the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany have designated
Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, the European Union has designated only
Hezbollah’s so-called armed faction, rather than Hezbollah as a whole.
Hezbollah’s leaders freely acknowledge the unity between its political and
terrorist wings under the leadership of Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. And
yet the European Union and several other nations continue to artificially
divide the group, allowing Hezbollah to continue carrying out its extremist
agenda.



To read the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) resource Hezbollah, please click
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To read the CEP resource Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), please click
here
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To read the CEP resource Lebanon: Extremism and Terrorism, please click here
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