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Brazilian authorities, along with the help of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, thwarted a planned terrorist attack against the Jewish community that was allegedly directed by Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
Brazil's Federal Police announced on Wednesday that it had served two arrest warrants and carried out 11 search and seizure warrants across Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and the federal capital, Brasília. The department did not provide more details about what the alleged terrorist attack could have looked like but said they launched Operation Trapiche, which in part will include obtaining evidence of possible terrorist recruitment.
"This was an extensive network that operated in additional countries. The Mossad thanks the Brazilian security services for the arrest of a terrorist cell that was operated by Hezbollah in order to carry out an attack on Israeli and Jewish targets in Brazil," the statement added.
There has seemingly been an increase in antisemitic hate crimes globally since Hamas's Oct. 7 terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of roughly 1,400 people, as Israel has forcefully responded militarily against the terror group in Gaza. Israel's heavy military response, which has left thousands of civilians dead, has resulted in condemnation from some countries.
Hezbollah is a terrorist group that is primarily based in Lebanon and the group is more sophisticated militarily than Hamas. There have been major concerns that they could attack Israel from the north, thus creating a two-front war for Israel, and potentially expanding it to a regional conflict. The group's leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, indicated his hesitancy to widen the war on Hamas's behalf recently in his first public comments since the outbreak of the war.
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