3 Israelis Charged With Smuggling Materials to Hamas

During Israel's 50-day war against Hamas in Gaza last summer, residents of Israel's border communities lived in fear of attacks by Hamas militants. Being so, Israelis were outraged when they heard that three Israeli citizens had been charged on suspicion of supplying materials to Gaza that were supposedly for Hamas to be used for its military infrastructure. One of the accused, Michael Peretz, 46, is from a small community near the Gaza border. Haim Yellin, the regional council head of the border area called his actions, "a betrayal of his community and his family." Peretz's main contact in Gaza was a merchant named Osama Zuaroub who has supposedly sold $30 million worth of metal goods to Hamas.