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Imad Al-Adwan was caught trying to bring in over 200 guns and nearly 100 kg. of gold through the Allenby Bridge crossing.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

Israel freed Jordanian parliamentarian Imad Al-Adwan Sunday morning after catching him trying to smuggle in hundreds of weapons, gold and ammunition to terrorist groups through the Allenby Bridge crossing from his country two weeks ago.

Jordan brought heavy diplomatic pressure to bear on Jerusalem, and the government agreed to let him go after Amman signed on to prosecute the legislator locally, even promising that he would be dealt with “harshly.”

Following his arrest, Jordanian security detained several of Al-Adwan’s alleged accomplices in the kingdom, who were linked to the smuggling attempt. Israeli forces also arrested a number of suspected colleagues in Judea and Samaria.

Al-Adwan, 35, is a member of the Palestine Committee in Jordan’s parliament and has often made public statements in support of terrorist acts against Israel.

Although diplomats as a rule do not have their bags examined checked when they enter a country, Israeli customs officers at the crossing had received an intelligence tip and searched Al-Adwan’s luggage. They reportedly found almost 200 handguns, 12 rifles, bullet clips and nearly 100 kg of gold that were meant for Palestinian terrorist groups in Judea and Samaria.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir slammed the move, saying, “The decision to release the terrorist who tried to bring here hundreds of weapons that will be used for terrorist attacks and acts of crime in the heart of the State of Israel is a strategic and moral mistake.”

“This diplomat should have been in prison for many years and not be released,” he added.

The leader of the right-wing party said that the entire Cabinet should have voted on the decision, and that the “weakness” of this government in the face of terrorism is showing again.

An Israeli security source told Ynet that “The suspect was not freed; the Israeli part of his investigation has been completed and he is being transferred to the custody of the Jordanian security officials, who are continuing the investigation.”

“He will be tried,” the source added, but the rest of the “threads” of the investigation are in Jordan and Israeli security has no access to them, so the decision was made to make it a “cooperative effort.”

The Arab MP revealed during his interrogation that this was not the first time he had snuck illicit goods over the border in the last year. Besides weapons and gold, these included valued civilian items like electronic cigarettes, and pigeons, a low-tech method Palestinian terrorists have used to carry messages that are harder to intercept than phone calls or Whatsapps.

It was not necessarily his anti-Israel ideology that motivated him, as he admitted that he had received large sums of money for his efforts. When he was arrested, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen had called it “a very serious incident” but sought to downplay it as just a criminal case, telling Ynet that he “does not want to place the blame on the entire [Jordanian] government or the entire parliament.”

Jerusalem has had an uneasy relationship with Amman ever since the current government took office late last year, with King Abdullah making some very harsh statements against Israeli counter-terror operations. The release of Al-Adwan into Jordanian custody is commonly seen as an attempt to bring the relationship back to a more even keel.

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Last week, supporters of Dutch soccer team chanted “Hamas, Hamas, all the Jews to the gas.”

By World Israel News Staff

Some 154 soccer fans were arrested by police in The Netherlands late Saturday evening after singing an antisemitic soccer song, including lyrics referencing the burning of Jews and the Nazi party’s military branch, the SS.

The fans were reportedly riding the subway en route to the Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam ahead of a game, and began singing the antisemitic anthem.

“My father was in the commandos, my mother was in the SS, together they burned Jews because Jews burn the best,” the fans sang.

In a statement, Dutch police said that “supporters were asked several times to stop singing,” but refused to do so.

Authorities arrested the men on “group insult” charges and fined them each $570.

The detained men were fans of the AZ Alkmaar soccer club, which was facing off against Amsterdam’s Ajax, a team which has been historically associated with Jews.

“The Central Jewish Committee is satisfied with the decision to intervene and tackle antisemitism one step at a time,” said the head of the local Jewish advocacy group, Chanan Hertzberger, in a statement to Dutch media.

The match between Ajax and AZ Alkmaar ended in a goalless, 0-0 draw.

Notably, just a few days before that match, there was antisemitic chanting at a previous game between Ajax and Feyenoord.

At that game, which took place on April 5th, a supporter of Feyenoord yelled “Hamas, Hamas, all the Jews to the gas,” outside of the stadium.

Other Feyenoord fans cheered and repeated the chant.

Naomi Mestrom, the director of Dutch-Jewish NGO CIDI, told RTL News that the incident made her feel “despondent.”

Mestrom said that antisemitic chant was “downright Jew-hatred,” emphasizing that her organization would help authorities identify the man who started the chanting.

“We are going to press charges against the person who held the microphone,” she said.

“I think there are excellent images [of the man]. And if Feyenoord believes they no longer want this kind of thing, they will also cooperate [with the investigation].”

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Dual Iranian-Swedish national executed in Iran, after being convicted by local court of masterminding attack on military parade.

By The Associated Press

Iran executed an Iranian-Swedish dual national Saturday accused of masterminding a 2018 attack on a military parade that killed at least 25 people, one of several enemies of Tehran seized abroad in recent years amid tensions with the West.

Farajollah Cha’ab, also known as Habib Asyoud, had been a leader of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, an Arab separatist movement that has conducted oil pipeline bombings and other attacks in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province. That group had claimed the 2018 attack in its immediate aftermath.

Cha’ab’s execution comes as a Swedish court last year sentenced an Iranian to life in prison over his part in the 1988 mass executions in Iran at the end of its war with Iraq. Tehran, which has used prisoners as bargaining chips in negotiations with the West, reacted angrily to that sentence. Meanwhile, tensions also remain high between Iran and the West over its rapidly advancing nuclear program as well — and at least one more prisoner with Western ties faces a possible execution.

The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency confirmed Cha’ab’s execution by hanging in a lengthy statement. It identified him as the leader of the militant group and alleged without providing evidence that he had ties to Swedish, Israelis and U.S. intelligence services. It accused his group of killing or wounding 450 people over the years, including multiple attacks on government offices and other sites.

It also included state television interviews with Cha’ab, a feature of many Iranian trials that activists long have described as coerced confessions.

It also clearly identified Iranian intelligence officers as being behind Cha’ab’s abduction, saying that its “unknown soldiers” captured him in Turkey in November 2019. Iran has used similar ruses to capture its enemies abroad, including the exiled journalist Ruhollah Zam who was executed in 2020.

Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom condemned Cha’ab’s execution.

“The death penalty is an inhumane and irrevocable punishment, and Sweden, together with the rest of the (European Union), condemns its use under all circumstances,” he said in a statement.

Sweden’s Nordic neighbors Finland and Norway also strongly condemned the execution, underlying their stance against the death penalty. “I am appalled,” said Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto.

The Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights separately condemned the execution, referring to Cha’ab’s closed-door trial as “grossly unfair.”

“This is an example of the Islamic Republic’s state terrorism,” said Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the group’s director. “We expect that the EU and Swedish government show adequate reaction to the murder of their citizen. Killing a hostage must not be tolerated.”

Tensions already had escalated between Iran and Sweden over the life imprisonment of Hamid Noury, an Iranian convicted in Sweden of committing grave war crimes and murder during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. The end of the war saw mass executions of an estimated 5,000 Iranian prisoners, including those from an exiled opposition group and others.

The 2018 attack in Iran targeted a military parade in Ahvaz in Khuzestan, the chaos captured live on state television. Militants disguised as soldiers opened fire, killing at least 25 people and wounding over 60 others in the deadliest attack to strike Iran in years. A spokesman for the separatist group claimed the assault shortly after in a televised interview. The Islamic State group also claimed the attack, though it offered factually incorrect details about the assault.

In recent months, Iran has carried out other executions after the months of unrest over the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest by the country’s morality police. In January, Iran executed a former high-ranking defense ministry official and dual Iranian-British national accused of spying.

Also facing a possible execution is an Iranian-German national who lived in California, a man Iran describes as planning a 2008 attack on a mosque that killed 14 people and wounded over 200 others, as well as other assaults through the little-known Kingdom Assembly of Iran and its Tondar militant wing. His family long has said he was captured by Iranian intelligence in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

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Hamza Hariush and Samer Shafi were killed during an exchange of fire with Israeli forces during which an Israeli citizen was injured and vehicles were damaged, according to the IDF.

By JNS

Israeli forces on Saturday killed two terrorists who were involved in a shooting near the town of Avnei Hefetz in Samaria on May 2.

The terrorists, identified as Hamza Hariush and Samer Shafi, were killed during an exchange of fire during which an Israeli citizen was injured and vehicles were damaged, according to the Israeli military.

Searches of the building where the suspects were hiding uncovered ammunition and two M-16 rifles, military vests and gun magazines.

Two additional terror suspects were arrested in connection with the May 2 attack, both residents of Tulkarm, according to the military. One of the suspects was wounded while attempting to escape.

The two suspects were transferred to the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) for questioning.

On Thursday, Israeli forces killed the Palestinian terrorists who last month murdered three members of the Dee family in the Jordan Valley. Lucy Dee, 48, and daughters Maia, 20, and Rina, 15, were killed in an April 7 shooting on the Route 57 highway near the Hamra Junction.

The terrorists, identified as Hamas members Hassan Katnani and Muad Masri, were shot dead in an exchange of fire after Israeli forces surrounded their hideout in Nablus’s Kasbah (Old City). Ibrahim Hura, identified by the IDF as a collaborator with the Hamas terrorists, was also killed in the raid, the military said.

“This morning, the IDF, the ISA and the National Counter-Terrorism Unit took action in the Old City of Nablus, in daylight. They settled accounts with the murderers of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee; may their memories be for a blessing. They confronted these murderers and eliminated them,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“There is a message here that needs to be understood: In recent months, we have eliminated or captured 110 terrorists; most of them were eliminated. Our message to the murderers, to whoever attacks us or tries to attack us is: We will find you. You can hide, you can try to hide, but it will not help. The long arm of the State of Israel will find you,” declared the prime minister.

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A shocking tragedy unfolded in Ogden, Utah, on April 27th when a family feud ended with a fatal confrontation. Jeffrey Roberts, a 66-year-old from Long Beach, California, drove on an 11-hour journey to make an appearance at his estranged brother’s residence.

Surveillance footage relayed the event when Jeffrey approached the residence, rang the doorbell at 7:10 pm, and asked his brother about their mother, who supposedly now lived in Missouri. In a rapid sequence of events, Jeffrey brandished a gun and fired multiple shots at his brother, Scott Roberts, which resulted in his death. In addition, Jeffrey shot his sister-in-law, who survived.

Jeffrey had also come equipped with a 9mm handgun, a 12-gauge shotgun, 23 loaded magazines, and 150 shotgun shells. Jeffrey set the residence ablaze with road flares, and as police arrived, he opened fire at them. A firefight ensued, and eventually, police fatally shot Jeffrey. Judi Roberts is currently recovering in the hospital, and the medical fees are being collected via GoFundMe, with more than $40,000 raised to date.

A neighbor of Jeffrey and Scott’s shared a recollection with KCBS of two very distinct siblings. She called Scott “the kind of person that would take the shirt off his back for somebody else,” yet painted a contrasting image of Jeffrey as “aggressive, violent, arrogant, and entitled.” She concluded with a sorrowful statement: “It breaks my heart to hear that Scott got killed. Honestly, Jeffrey, not so much.”

This heartbreaking story serves as a cautionary tale. Family feuds can become desperate, even deadly operations, and it is not feared to seek outside help in order to keep conflicts under control. The narrative of Jeffrey and Scott Roberts stands as a grim reminder of the hazardous reality that comes with unchecked feuds.

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Authorities in Tulsa are investigating a deadly shooting that left two people dead and a suspect in custody. On April 18, a homeless black man, Carlton Gilford allegedly shot and killed two white men in separate locations. However, an investigation is underway to determine whether race played any role in this tragic incident.

At the Rudisill Library, Gilford allegedly came up from behind 35-year-old Lundin Hathcock and shot him in the back of the head. Hathcock was rushed to the hospital but died from his injuries. Later that day, Gilford went to a nearby QuikTrip and shot 55-year-old James McDaniel in the back of the head. McDaniel fell to the ground, and Gilford fatally shot him again. Gilford then fired shots at a security guard and also at a bystander outside the shop before police arrived.

When officers encountered him, Gilford admitted to committing the two murders. He was soon arrested and then charged with two counts of first-degree murder, in addition to two counts of shooting with the intent to kill, and also one count of malicious intimidation or harassment, which equates to a hate crime in Oklahoma.

Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler noted that the information suggested that race played a role in the incident. He told KOTV, “The information suggests that race played a role in it.” Kunzweiler added, “I feel like that is something we can prove, and it is something that a judge or jury obviously needs to listen to. So, we will present that information along with everything else.”

Gilford is being held without bail and is due back in court on June 23.

The investigation is still ongoing, and Tulsa Police are closely examining if the killings were motivated by race. If determined, Gilford could face additional charges and more severe punishment. The events of that day have shaken the Tulsa community, and people hope for justice to be served. However, the hardship of this tragedy will remain with the families of Hathcock and McDaniel.

Saturday afternoon in Allen, Texas, brought a horrible tragedy as a shooting at Allen Premium Outlets left eight people dead and seven injured. Allen Fire Department Chief Jonathan Boyd reported that four of the wounded were stable, while three patients were in critical condition. The total number of fatalities comes to nine, including the suspect.

Police Chief Brian Harvey stated that a police officer on an unrelated call was close by when the shooting happened at 3:36 p.m. The officer was able to take action to eliminate the threat, which is confirmed by a law enforcement source speaking to Fox News, who believes the suspected shooter acted alone.

ATF Dallas Field Division agents, FBI officials, and the Allen Police Department were on the scene at the shooting. The Allen PD advised everyone to stay away from the area until further notice. Governor Greg Abbott released a statement expressing his sorrow and reassured local authorities that the state would provide sources.

“Our hearts are with the people of Allen, Texas, tonight during this unspeakable tragedy,” Abbott announced. “I am in close contact with Mayor Fulk and DPS Director McCraw, as well as other state and local leaders, offering the full support of the State of Texas to the locals. This includes DPS officers, Texas Rangers, and investigative resources.”

The incident at Allen Premium Outlets has left city residents in mourning and despair. Eight innocent people have been killed, with seven more in the hospital, some seriously. The responding police officer resolved the situation, and the suspected shooter is dead. The ATF Dallas Field Division, FBI, and Allen Police Department were all on the case, and Governor Greg Abbott assured the state support. Our thoughts and prayers are with Allen, Texas, in the wake of the tragedy.