GAZA (Dispatches) – The Palestinian Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip says it has thwarted several espionage operations by the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reported.
Iyad al-Bozom, the ministry spokesman, did not, however, provide any details of the thwarted operations.
On Monday, Doha-based Al-Jazeera TV said that last month Malaysian authorities had freed a Palestinian kidnapped by the regime’s Mossad agents in the capital Kuala Lumpur.
“This was not the first time that Mossad failed in carrying out operations against Palestinians,” al-Bozom told Anadolu Agency.
There was no comment from the occupying regime on the report.
In 2018, Fadi al-Batsh, a research engineer thought to be linked to Hamas resistance movement, was gunned down near his home in the Malaysian capital by two gunmen who fled the scene.
While his family has accused the occupying regime’s spy agency Mossad of carrying out the assassination, then-Zionist war minister Avigdor Lieberman denied the occupying regime’s involvement.
The regime is widely believed to have assassinated numerous Palestinian activists in the past, many of them overseas.
In 1997, in Jordan, Mossad agents tried and failed to kill then-Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal by spraying poison into his ear.
Mossad was also been behind the assassination in 2010 of top Hamas commander Mahmud al-Mabhuh in a Dubai hotel.
The Zionist regime has never confirmed or denied its involvement in Mabhuh’s murder.