Israel arrests 7 settlers, accuses them of carrying out 'tasks' for Iran: Report
Israeli prosecutors say authorities have arrested seven Jewish settlers from the northern part of the occupied territories on charges of carrying out tasks for Iran and gathering information on the regime’s strategic installations.
According to a report published by Ynet news website, the suspects are all immigrants to the occupied lands from Azerbaijan, and have been in contact with Iran for the past two years.
They are all residents of Haifa as well as the northern Israeli-occupied territories, and include a soldier who deserted the military, in addition to two minors.
The adult suspects are named as Azis Nisanov, Alexander Sadykov, Vyacheslav Gushchin, Yevgeny Yoffe and Yigal Nissan.
The suspects are accused of photographing and collecting information on Israeli military bases and facilities, including the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, the Nevatim and Ramat David air bases, battery sites of the so-called Iron Dome missile system and the Hadera power plant.
The Nevatim base was targeted in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) retaliatory missile strikes, dubbed Operation True Promise I and II, against the Israeli regime this year, while Ramat David was struck by the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement on September 22.
The suspects are also accused of receiving maps of strategic sites from their handlers, including that of the Golani base hit in a Hezbollah drone strike earlier this month.
Four soldiers were killed and more than 60 people injured in the attack, according to first responders and the Israeli military.
Prosecutors say investigators from the Israeli regime’s so-called internal security service, Shin Bet, and police found that the suspects carried out a series of different tasks for Iranian intelligence agencies, and were in contact with Tehran.
Prosecutors say they will request that the seven suspects are held in detention until the conclusion of legal proceedings.
The Rishon Letzion Magistrate Court announced that the suspects will be indicted for purported security offenses on Friday.
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