In the wake of the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, it appears taxpayer dollars may be funding the advancement of terrorism against our strongest ally in the Middle East: Israel.
According to Breibart News, Palestinian security officials report that Islamic Jihad—an Iran-backed terror group based in the Gaza Strip—is now actively recruiting would-be terrorists in the West Bank. The group is specifically targeting Hebron and Jenin.
Palestinian Authority officials have been prevented from operating in Gaza since the 2007 coup in which Hamas seized control of the territory, but according to intelligence collected by the PA, Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials have pressured Islamic Jihad to set up a terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank.
The official states that Iran, encouraged by Hamas’ success in restoring its infrastructure in the West Bank, charged Hezbollah with recruiting militants formerly associated with Fatah’s military wing, and has more recently turned to Islamic Jihad in hopes that the terror group would rebuild its own West Bank infrastructure, which was left in ruins at the end of the second intifada.
Last week, the Israeli media reported that members of an Islamic Jihad cell were arrested after they planned to carry out an attack on a wedding in the south of Israel and kidnap soldiers.
