The rare grenade that reached the heart of the gang war in the north

In a police raid on crime organizations in Nazareth, a rare Soviet RGD-5 grenade was seized, wrapped in plastic wrap. District Commander Ran Ophir explains the entry of new weapons into the arena and the police's preparedness for the phenomenon. The seizure is part of a wave of extensive thwarting operations, including 12 pistols, submachine guns, and grenades, against the backdrop of a crime vacuum created following the arrest of the leader of the Bakri organization.

In a police raid on crime organizations in Nazareth, a rare Soviet RGD-5 grenade was seized, wrapped in plastic wrap to protect the activation mechanism. The grenade, designed in the Soviet Union in the 1950s, served the Warsaw Pact armies and caused devastation in war zones from Vietnam to Ukraine. District Commander Ran Ophir explains that the police are seeing new weapons entering the arena and are focusing on operational and intelligence activities, although it is not yet a widespread phenomenon. The seizure is part of a broad wave of thwarting operations in the past month, which included 12 pistols, 3 "Carlo" submachine guns, 5 hand grenades (including three Soviet grenades), and dozens of magazines. Behind the wave of seizures is a shift in the local crime map: the Bakri organization, considered one of the strongest in the north, was severely impacted by the arrest of its leader Samir Bakri and others. Their arrest created a crime vacuum that sub-organizations and young criminals are trying to fill. The police are acting according to the district commander's strategy to take down the "big trees" and continue to harvest the younger tier, applying district and national pressure.