Israel's Shin Bet claims spying for Iran up 400% in 2024
Iran Press TV
Wednesday, 01 January 2025 9:07 AM
The Israeli regime's so-called internal spy service has alleged that cases of espionage for Iran that were identified by the apparatus witnessed a "400 percent increase" in 2024 compared to the previous year.
The Shin Bet provided the purported figure in a report on Tuesday, claiming that it had indicted 27 illegal Israeli settlers as part of its pursuance of the cases.
The service also claimed that it had busted 13 "major espionage operations" targeting the regime.
In October 2024, the agency and the regime's police alleged they had arrested two settlers east of the city of Tel Aviv on charges of espionage for Iran.
The charges leveled against the arrestees also included carrying out a series of acts of sabotage in the occupied Palestinian territories.
On September 19 too, Shin Bet and the Israeli police had claimed that they had arrested a settler on suspicion of involvement in a plot targeting "prominent Israelis."
The agency's Tuesday report further alleged its having nipped "1,040 significant attacks" in the bud across the occupied West Bank, including the holy city of al-Quds.
It purported that the potential violations included "shooting plots and suicide bombings," claiming that its efforts had resulted in a 40-percent decrease in such attacks.
An extensive part of the apparatus' operations reportedly involved the Gaza Strip, where the regime has been waging a war of genocide since October 2023.
In the coastal sliver, the organization claimed "processing" over 2,500 detainees, including 650, who were subjected to "intensive interrogation."
The detainees reportedly included 40 senior resistance commanders and 165 people with purported close links to the resistance's leadership.
The claims came amid widespread verified and damning accounts of Israeli forces' resorting to extensive acts of torture against Palestinian detainees, including sexual harassment, abuse, and even gang-rape.
Inside the occupied territories, the agency alleged detecting 20 "terror cells," five of which had purportedly planned to stage car bombings or other types of explosions.
The organization's "elite Team Tequila" unit, which cooperates with the Israeli police, reportedly deployed 32 times to perform "immediate threat response."
The agency also claimed having conducted "dozens of complex security operations" abroad, including a "special security mission" involving protection of the regime's sports delegation to the Olympics in Paris amid strict international criticism of Tel Aviv's participation at the event, despite its involvement in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza and escalated deadly aggression elsewhere throughout the West Asia region.
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