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Red cows are not the only cows that worry the Arab world, after allegations arose that Israel trained cows to spy on residents of Palestinian villages - at least this is what was reported in the official daily newspaper of the Palestinian Authority, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida.
According to the report, a resident of a remote Palestinian village who encountered Israeli cattle is the one responsible for the "report" that Israel secretly trained the cattle to spy on Palestinians.
Rashed Morar, one of the elders of the village of Kharbat Yanon, a small Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate with about 120 inhabitants, claimed that he came across a random cow and for some reason contacted the local media and claimed that it was a "spy cow" that the Israelis recruited after they trained cows to spy on him and his friends to the village
The Jerusalem Post reported that he said: "These are cows that have been recruited and trained. Around the neck of each cow is hung a medallion with a listening and recording device and sometimes cameras, to follow every detail in Khirbet Yanon."
He also claimed that "the settlers are releasing herds of wild pigs" as a way to destroy all Palestinian crops.
This claim was originally published in January 2023, but resurfaced last week on social media and the British media, with the Daily Star mentioning that the village of Kharbat Yanon, which is surrounded by a number of outposts linked to the Itamar settlement, is right in the middle of Area A in the Palestinian Authority, so for Israel to bring an army of cows to it Spying from the Israeli settlement closest to it, Neve Ofek, it was necessary to drive them a distance of 55 minutes or to lead them on foot for 12 hours.
Before cows - there were cruel rats
This is not the first time that Palestinians claim that Israel uses animals against them.
In July 2008, the same Palestinian news outlet reported that settlers were releasing a strain of poison-resistant super rats in the Old City of Jerusalem.
"Israeli settlers brought cupboards full of rats and released them in the Arab neighborhoods of the old city; they multiplied and became a great curse," the newspaper said.
"Residents' efforts to deal with this epidemic have failed, especially since cats run away from these rats because of their size and ferocity.
"All conventional efforts to kill them have failed because they seem to be immune to poison and breed in sewage.
It is known that this rat gives birth seven times a year and each time gives birth to 20 cubs, which forces the Arab residents of East Jerusalem to deal not only with the dangers of the Israeli occupation, but also with the raid of the rats."
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Israel has a history of spy animals
Not only the Palestinians suspect the animals of being Israeli spies.
In 2011 it was reported that an eagle was suspected by Saudi Arabia of being a Mossad spy.
The capture of the eagle, which apparently flew from Israel with a tracking device attached to its leg, was widely reported in the Arab media.
The "Tel Aviv University" stamp on the tracking facility also did not impress the Saudi authorities, who announced that they had caught a "spy" with a sophisticated GPS system.
The ridiculous claims even managed to elicit a response from Israel, which usually refrains from responding to claims of this type.
In a statement on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was stated that "the entire connection between this eagle and the Mossad is the work of an especially developed imagination, of some people who have nothing better to do."
In the end, logic prevailed and officials in Saudi Arabia confirmed that the eagle was released free of suspicion and even Prince Bandar bin Saud came to the defense of the eagle and said that he "is not defending Israel, but it should be clarified - the newspapers should have checked the matter with the authorities before publishing such a report."
In 2012, following a series of shark attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh that claimed the life of one tourist and injured several others and one suggestion that is common in the peninsula, regarding the reason for the attacks is that it is a plot by the Mossad.
"It cannot be ruled out," the governor of South Sinai, Muhammad Abdel-Fadel Shosha, was quoted at the time in an interview with one of the Egyptian news sites, "but more time is needed to find out the matter."
A year later, a migratory warbler bird caused panic in a village in southeastern Turkey, after local residents who found it suspected it was an Israeli spy.
According to the BBC report, based on reports in the Turkish media, the villagers' suspicions arose when the dead bird was found in a field with a metal ring attached to its leg that read "Israel".
While ringing birds is a common practice among zoologists to track their migration routes, those same villagers reportedly noticed that the dead bird's nostrils were "suspiciously enlarged," and assumed that this was a sign that it was carrying a microchip implanted by the Mossad.
They called the police, and the bird's carcass was taken for examination at the district offices of the Ministry of Agriculture in Gaziantep.
There, after several days of testing, they decided that the bird was not a spy, and reassured the residents.
An official at the ministry explained to the BBC that his people had a little trouble convincing the local police officers that the bird was not a danger, and at one point they even involved the counter-terrorism unit in the matter - but in the end they relented.
After the Saudi eagle that spied on Israel, the intelligence whistleblower that was investigated in Turkey and the "Mssad shark" that terrorized the shores of Sinai, another bird case stirred the Arab countries in 2013, when Egyptian authorities suspected that a mysterious pigeon was working on an intelligence mission for Israel.
A pigeon, a shark, an eagle or a cricket - which one is the spy?/ShutterStock
The official Egyptian news agency reported at the time that the pigeon was captured by security personnel in Shubra al-Khima, the fourth largest city in Egypt, located north of Cairo.
She was taken to the police station, where suspicious findings were found attached to her body: a letter and microfilm.
From the police station, the suspect chicken was transferred to the care of the forensic laboratory personnel.
According to reports in the Arab media, the letter carried by the pigeon read "Islam, Egypt 2012".
The official television in Cairo quoted a senior security official, who said that the contents of the microfilm have not yet been deciphered.
It was also reported that two senior officers at the rank of General and Brigadier General (Lieutenant Colonel) were appointed to "investigate the pigeon".
To this day it is not known what happened to her.
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