Two Israeli men were indicted Sunday on charges of weapons transactions and violating defense export controls, for allegedly selling and transporting hundreds of tons of dual-use chemicals into the Palestinian Authority without authorization and while making efforts to conceal their activities.

Yehezkel Moshe, 66, from Moshav Pedaya, was named as the first defendant, and Jihad Wazuz, 43, of East Jerusalem, as the second.

The indictment noted that four terror attacks were carried out in the West Bank between March and August 2024 using explosives made of dual-use materials. And it stated that a Palestinian agricultural supply store owner in Hebron who purchased dual-use chemicals from Moshe was arrested in September 2024 for selling such chemicals to a terror cell, which then made bombs used in those terror attacks.

According to the indictment, Moshe and Wazuz allegedly formed a criminal conspiracy to import thousands of sacks of potassium nitrate, calcium, sulfur, and other dual-use chemicals that can be used to make explosives, starting some time in 2019.

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