2023-11-09 15:27:55
The Israeli ambassador in Brazil, Daniel Zonshine, denounced that in that country they helped terrorists of the Lebanese organization Hezbollah to plan an attack with the aim of “killing Jews”, and He compared it to the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires.
“Hezbollah’s interest in any part of the world is to kill Jews. If they chose Brazil it is because there are people there who help them“Zonshine said in statements to the Brazilian media O’Globo.
The diplomat said this the day following the Brazilian Federal Police detained two Brazilian citizens who, according to that force, were part of Hezbollah and They were working on planning an attack.
Zonshine went a step further and said that the Lebanese organization planned to carry out in Brazil the same thing as in Argentina, in reference to the AMIA attack on July 18, 1994, in which 85 people died.
“Hezbollah He would do in Brazil the same thing he did in Argentinathe group is mainly financed by Iran and drug trafficking,” he said.
In those statements, Zonshine said that Hezbollah has supporters in the country and noted that one place where they are found is in the Triple Border. According to the diplomat, in that place between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay there are fugitives from the Middle East and people who financially support that organization.
This Wednesday, the Brazilian Federal Police arrested the alleged terrorists and issued eleven search and arrest warrants in the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and the Federal District.
One of the detainees was captured upon arriving from Lebanon at the Guarulhos airport in São Paulo, while the other was already in São Paulo.
The Brazilian Government reported in a statement that the arrest of the suspects occurred within the framework of the Operation Trapichewhich aims to “interrupt preparations for terrorist acts and obtain evidence of possible recruitment of Brazilians to commit extremist acts in the country.”
The same report specifies that the search and arrest orders were issued by the judicial undersecretary of Belo Horizonte and the suspects must answer for the crimes of integrating a terrorist organization and making preparations for a terrorist act.
These actions, it was reported, contemplate penalties that reach 15 years and 6 months in prison.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted that “Brazilian security services, together with Mossad and their partners in the Israeli security community, along with other international security agencies, foiled a terrorist attack in Brazil, planned by the terrorist organization Hezbollah, directed and financed by Iran.
“Given the backdrop of the war in Gaza once morest the terrorist organization Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continue to operate around the world to attack Israeli, Jewish and Western targets,” they warned.
The National Public Diplomacy Directorate in the PMO views with utmost gravity that photojournalists working with international media joined in covering the brutal acts of murder perpetrated by Hamas terrorists on October 7th in the communities adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) November 9, 2023
The Israeli Confederation of Brazil (Conib, for its acronym in Portuguese) stated that it is “very apprehensive” to learn that suspects associated with Hezbollah “come to carry out attacks” and congratulated the country’s authorities for “acting preventively.”
“The entire Jewish community wants Brazil to continue being a place of harmonious coexistence and for these criminals to be punished to the full extent of the law,” the vice president of the Hebrew association, Daniel Bialski, told reporters.
We congratulate the PF, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Justice for their preventive action and reiterate that the tragic conflicts in the Middle East cannot be imported into our country, where different communities live peacefully, harmoniously and without fear of terrorism.
— CONIB (@coniboficial) November 8, 2023
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