Itallah Sarhan and Faiz Attar smuggled tens of thousands of euros from Gaza to the West Bank by hiding them in special shoes provided to them by Hamas operations; Sarhan also provides information on location of terror tunnels and rocket-launching spots.
The Shin Bet and Israel Police arrested two Palestinians last month on the suspicion they were involved in the smuggling of money from Gaza to Hamas operatives in the West Bank, it was cleared for publication on Tuesday.
In his interrogation, Itallah Sarhan, 27, a truck driver working for a company Hamas and Islamic Jihad employ to clear sand from tunnel-digging sites, revealed a lot of information about tunnel openings he saw during his work.
Some of the tunnels, he said, can be accessed through civilian structures, including residential buildings and mosques.
He also disclosed information about rocket-launching spots located near civilian structures, "in a way that endangers the civilian population in the Strip," the Shin Bet said.
Sarhan was arrested two weeks after obtaining an entry permit to Israel. On the day after he received the permit, he was approached by a Hamas police officer in Gaza who recruited him to smuggle money to the West Bank.
The Hamas police officer introduced him to other Hamas operatives who paid him for the job and provided him with a pair of shoes in which the money could be hidden. They also promised to aid him if he got caught.