Documentary Reveals Palestinian Fighters Infiltrated Shin Bet and Mossad

  A new, highly anticipated documentary reveals how Palestinian fighters penetrated deep into Israel's so-called internal security service, the Shin Bet, and the Mossad spy agency. "Spider's Web 2," as the documentary is called, describes a complex espionage operation carried out by Al-Quds Brigades against Israeli organizations. The brigades serve as the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement, which is headquartered in the Tel Aviv blockaded Palestinian territory in the Gaza Strip.

The mission served as a continuation of Operation Wahda al-Sahat, which Islamic Jihad launched in August 2022 in retaliation for Israel's war in Gaza. The Israeli military launched nearly 150 airstrikes against the coastal strip during the war, prompting the resistance to fire about 1,100 rockets at the occupied territories in response. According to the documentary, Islamic Jihad conducted the espionage operation with six of its fighters, who managed to infiltrate the recruitment and espionage management mechanisms of the Israeli intelligence apparatus. The operation managed to trick a number of Israeli officials into divulging the secrets of Israeli intelligence's methods and procedures.

One of the Palestinian agents, dubbed Recruit No. 106, deceived a Shin Bet officer into believing he was afraid of arrest by the Palestinian resistance fighters, thereby enticing the Israeli officer into opening a mine of information about the regime's security system to divulge his methods and means. The Palestinian agents also managed to find out how Shin Bet agents had tried in the past to pose as Palestinian Authority officials, as agents of the Jordanian intelligence service, and even as representatives of the European Union. The Palestinian operation led to the arrest of several Israeli spy agents and the dismantling of at least three Israeli spy groups.

According to the documentary, the successful conduct of the operation resulted in the Al Quds Forces debunking the myth of power surrounding the Israeli regime and its capabilities, with Palestinian militants merely describing the regime as "an illusion made of 'identified dust'. identified. The term was famously used by Mahmoud al-Aridah, one of the six Palestinian prisoners who successfully escaped from an Israeli high-security prison in September 2021.