An indictment was served Sunday against an Arab man, who joined Hamas and carried out attacks against IDF forces and Jewish Israeli civilians along the border with Gaza.
According to the indictment, which was handed down at Beersheba District Court, 24-year-old Madhat Abu-Sneimeh joined Hamas in 2007, and worked together with several other terrorists to carry out scores of attacks.
He was reportedly captured by Shin Bet security service agents on the Gaza-Israel border, though it is not clear precisely when.
Abu-Sneimeh and his accomplices engaged in organized reconnaissance against Israeli security forces patrolling the border with Gaza, including establishing a network of lookout positions to monitor IDF traffic. Based on their intelligence-gathering, the terrorists planted bombs targeting IDF jeeps, with the intent of killing and injuring as many soldiers as possible, the indictment says.
During 2012, after the end of Operation Pillar of Defense, Abu-Sneimeh and his fellow Hamas terrorists even fired rockets at an IDF military post. He also participated in the firing of mortars at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Gaza, in an attack which only miraculously did not cause any casualties.
As part of his enlistment in Hamas, Abu-Sneimeh partook in extensive terrorist training - both theoretical and practical - including a snipers course.
The indictment further reveals how in 2014 he took up joint ownership of a kilometer-long smuggling tunnel between Egypt and Gaza, in exchange for a $7,000 payment.
Between 2014 and the beginning of 2016, Abu-Sneimeh and his accomplices smuggled military uniforms for Hamas's elite naval commando unit, as well as military equipment, into Gaza. The financial rewards for his terrorist activity were substantial; Abu-Sneimeh received $2,000 per month from smugglers who used his tunnel, which stretched from Rafiah in Gaza to the Egyptian side of the Palestinian Arab city.
Egyptian security forces eventually destroyed the tunnel, as part of a major - and still ongoing - operation to crack down on Islamist terrorism in the Sinai Peninsula.
The indictment charges Abu-Sneimeh with multiple crimes, including making contact with a foreign agent, planning terrorist attacks, attempted murder, passing information to an enemy with the intent of harming state security, partaking in illegal paramilitary training, active membership in a banned terrorist organization, various illegal weapons charges, and more.