Senior Hamas Member: 2013 Marks End of Israel’s Espionage Activities in Gaza

A senior official of the Palestinian Hamas Movement underlined that the year 2013 will mark the end of the activities of the Israeli spies acting as mercenaries of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip.

Speaking to the Palestinian newspaper al-Quds on Saturday, Spokesman of the Palestinian Interior and National Security Ministry Islam Shahvan said that thanks to the efforts made by the Palestinian security bodies, intelligence wiring by Israeli spies has been on the decline.

He noted that the activities of Israeli spies in the Palestinian territories will come to zero in the New Year.

Shahvan said that several mercenaries of the Zionist regime were arrested by the Palestinian security forces during the last Israeli war on Gaza in November.

Israel triggered an 8-day fighting by assassinating the military chief of the ruling Hamas group on November 14 followed by dozens of airstrikes on Gaza.

In response, Palestinian groups fired over 1,500 missiles and rockets at Israel.

Palestinian resistance groups targeted Tel Aviv and areas near Jerusalem for the first time in the history of confrontations between the two sides, launching a rocket attack in a major escalation of hostilities as Israel pressed forward with relentless airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

Israel called up thousands of reservists and massed troops along the border with Gaza, signaling a ground invasion of the densely populated seaside strip could be imminent.

But the rocket attacks on areas deep in the occupied territories (Israel) frightened the Israeli regime, and made it drop its aggression plans and ask for third party mediation.

Eventually, a Cairo-mediated ceasefire agreement, which took effect on Wednesday November 21, ended the Israeli attacks, which killed more than 165 Palestinians and injured about 1,269 others.