JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence service said on Wednesday it had thwarted a plan to assassinate National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and that members of a Hamas cell had been arrested.

The planned Hamas attack against the far-right cabinet minister would have involved use of explosive drones, the Shin Bet said.

The Shin Bet said members of a Hamas cell from the Hebron area in the Israeli-occupied West Bank had been arrested and that drones had been seized. It said it believed the cell had operated a Hamas headquarters in Turkey “with the intent of carrying out an assassination attack on Ben Gvir.”

An investigation was under way, it said.

The Palestinian militant group Hamas, with which Israel has been at war in the Gaza Strip for nearly two years, wa

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