️🇱🇧🇱🇧🇧🇷🇮🇱 i24: Hezbollah turns to organized crime networks in Brazil to recruit prisoners, finance operations and prepare potential attacks against Israeli targets and the Jewish community in Latin America.

️🇱🇧🇱🇧🇧🇷🇮🇱 i24: Hezbollah turns to organized crime networks in Brazil to recruit prisoners, finance operations and prepare potential attacks against Israeli targets and the Jewish community in Latin America.

Investigation related to Operation Trapiche by the Brazilian Federal Police, the organization recruits people in financial need and with no previous ideological connections to send them to Lebanon to receive technical training and surveillance. Upon their return, the agents reportedly conducted surveillance on synagogues, cemeteries and diplomatic facilities, using local businesses, front companies and cryptocurrencies to hide the funding and origin of the operations.