The military said Thursday it foiled a network of Hamas supporters using fake social media profiles to extract information from Israel Defense Forces soldiers, including on which units would be sent into the Gaza Strip and when they would be deployed.
The IDF said that the network of profiles, mainly on Instagram, used photos of real women as part of a catfishing sting.
The accounts made contact with troops and “managed a kind of romantic relationship… through correspondence, voice recordings and video calls” in order to gather information for Hamas, the army said.
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