January 20, 2016 Officials Implicate Hezbollah Chief’s Son

January 20, 2016 Islamic Murder, Mayhem, and Mutilation

Officials Implicate Hezbollah Chief’s Son

Israeli authorities said they had foiled a suicide-bomb plot allegedly led by the son of Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese militia and political movement Hezbollah.

Jawad Nasrallah used social media to recruit and form a cell of Palestinian would-be attackers, Israeli security officials said Wednesday. Another Hezbollah operative then instructed the recruits to carry out suicide bombings and shootings against Israeli civilians, they said.

An Israeli military court in the occupied West Bank indicted five Palestinians after an investigation into the cell’s activities, charging them with crimes including conspiracy.

A spokesman for Hezbollah in Beirut declined to comment.

Source: The Wall Street Journal. January 21, 2016.