Eight suspected members of a smuggling ring had been arrested in a joint operation by security forces and police in April, the Shin Bet security service introduced Wednesday.
The eight, all from the Bedouin city of Bir Hadaj in southern Israel, are accused of smuggling medicine throughout the Israeli-Sinai border and of inflicting harm to military infrastructure alongside the border.
From questioning the suspects, security forces say that they had been concerned in a large-scale well-organized smuggling operation on the night time of April 13-14. As a part of their operation among the suspects allegedly broken the perimeter fence.
The Shin Bet careworn that damaging IDF border infrastructure constitutes a menace to security and is handled severely.
The eight had been indicted Wednesday in Beersheba District Court. Five of the suspects had been charged with severe security offenses.
Bir Hadaj is barely about 20 minutes from the border with Egypt, and has lengthy been recognized to police as a drug-smuggling website.
In February police detained 20 suspects from the city accused of impersonating IDF military border patrols to move medicine from Egypt.
In a raid cops found two military jeeps, IDF helmets and uniforms, night-vision binoculars, walkie-talkies, together with weapons and ammunition.
On a virtually nightly foundation, Egyptian drug-runners, most of them Bedouin, come to the 125-mile (200-kilometer) border fence to toss luggage of contraband to their Israeli counterparts, who accumulate the products in ATVs — or, on a large night time, in vehicles — and convey them again for distribution, troopers serving on the border instructed Famzn News final 12 months.