Six residents of the village of Ghajar were charged on Thursday with receiving explosives from Hezbollah to carry out a terror attack in Haifa.
The plot was foiled after the main defendant, Diab Kahamuz, forgot where he had hidden the explosives, which were later discovered.
Diab Kahamuz, 31, is the son of Saeb Kahamuz, a drug dealer and Hezbollah militant who escaped to Lebanon during the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Saeb had allegedly contacted his son, suggesting Diab used his drug smuggling infrastructure to smuggle explosives from Lebanon into Israel. The senior Kahamuz also told his son how to directly contact Hezbollah operatives.
Among Diab\’s co-conspirators are his two brothers—Jamil Kahamuz, 29, and Yussef Kahamuz, 34, their cousin Mohssan Kahamuz, 21, and two other residents of Ghajar—Adal Ayunat, 29, and Ibrahim Mamdouh, 21.
Diab Kahamuz was indicted for aiding the enemy in wartime, espionage, contact with a foreign agent, giving information to the enemy, conspiring to aid the enemy in wartime, weapons offenses, attempt to import weapons, and conspiring to commit a crime.
His brothers were charged with aiding in these offenses, while their cousin was charged with giving information to the enemy and other offenses.