“Special forces” of the Shin Bet captured the commander of Hamas’s internal security apparatus in a “bold operation” in Gaza City on Tuesday morning, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the military, and the domestic security agency.
Arabic-language media claimed earlier in the day that an Israeli-backed anti-Hamas militia carried out a raid during which the Hamas security chief, Muein al-Arabid, was captured.
But in a statement later Tuesday, Netanyahu said he commended “the Shin Bet and the IDF, who in a bold operation arrested today the head of building Hamas’s internal security apparatus near his home in Gaza.”
In a separate statement, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet said the raid was carried out by “special forces” of the security agency.
The IDF and Shin Bet said the special forces raided a building in Gaza City and captured the Hamas security chief.
