Iran Opens New Front Against Israel
The Israeli security agency Shin Bet recently foiled an attempt by Iran to smuggle large amounts of advanced weapons to Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria to be used in attacks against targets in Israel.
Iran Opens New Front Against Israel
Soeren Kern | Israel My Glory | January 1, 2026
The Israeli security agency Shin Bet recently foiled an attempt by Iran to smuggle large amounts of advanced weapons to Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank) to be used in attacks against targets in Israel. The smuggling operation demonstrates that Iran, after losing its proxies in Lebanon and Syria, is intensifying its efforts to open a new eastern terror front against Israel inside the West Bank by exploiting Israel’s long and porous border with Jordan.
A joint Shin Bet–Israel Defense Forces (IDF) statement said they intercepted a shipment of Iranian weapons including rocket launchers, anti-tank rockets, explosive-laden drones, rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, assault rifles, and handguns, among other items. The plot to smuggle “balance-altering” weapons into the West Bank was organized by Iran’s Unit 4000, a special operations division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and Unit 18840, a special operations unit of the IRGC in Syria.
