It has been cleared for publication that the Shin Bet arrested Mustafa Khaled Awad,36, at the Allenby Bridge on July 19. Originally from a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Awad then immigrated to Belgium where he received Belgian citizenship
The joint interrogation of the Shin Bet security service and the International Criminal Investigation Unit in Lahav 433 police unit revealed that Mustafa was recruited into the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 2010. It was also revealed that Mustafa was a member of a cell of PFLP terrorist operatives living and working in Europe Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Judea and Samaria.