By Xinhua,
Gaza : The Islamic Jihad movement on Wednesday announced it discovered a spy cell comprising seven collaborators with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
Abu Ahmed, a spokesman for the movement’s military wing, said the spy cell was discovered ten days ago in southern Gaza Strip and its chief was seized while he guided the Jihad militants to the other members of the network.
“The intelligence service” of the Islamic Jihad interrogates the suspected spies who have admitted helping Israel in assassinating senior Palestinian commanders and bombing a Hamas police station a two weeks ago in Rafah city, said the spokesman.
According to the spokesman, some of the collaborators have taken on their tasks more than ten years ago, and the Islamic Jihad will hand over the spies to the interior ministry of the deposed Hamas government.
The Islamic Hamas movement has been controlling the Gaza Strip since nearly one year ago after it routed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ security forces and ousted his long-dominant Fatah.
Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005 but left many Palestinian spies and agents who guided the army when it attacks the coastal enclave, it was said.