Iran Reportedly Flooding Yehudah And Shomron With Advanced Weapons To Replicate Oct. 7 Attack

Iran has sharply intensified its campaign to arm terrorist factions in Yehudah and Shomron, smuggling in advanced weaponry in recent months, according to Israeli intelligence officials and regional experts cited in a Washington Free Beacon report published Tuesday.

Sources said the regime’s objective is to turn the region into a Gaza-style terror base capable of carrying out massacres similar to Hamas’s October 7 assault.

Following the Trump-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas last month, Islamic Jihad reportedly shifted its main operational focus to Yehuda and Shomron. The group, Iran’s most active proxy in the territory, is operating in cities including Hebron, Shechem (Nablus), Jenin, and Jericho. It now works alongside members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and local Hamas factions — 28 groups in total, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).

These organizations have obtained weaponry not previously seen in Yehudah and Shomron, such as explosive-laden drones, anti-tank missiles, rocket-propelled grenades, and advanced rockets. The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reported that after the October 10 ceasefire, Hamas declared the region would “continue to be a leading arena of resistance (sic).”

Recent IDF counterterror operations have intercepted multiple Iranian arms shipments, including a drone launched from Jordan carrying 10 firearms, and an October delivery from Iran’s Quds Force containing 15 anti-tank rockets, 29 explosive devices, four armed drones, and various firearms.

Iran is also seeking new smuggling routes through Jordan and Lebanon. In July, Israeli forces foiled two Quds Force attempts to transfer weapons from Lebanon, the Amit Center confirmed.

In February, the IDF uncovered a joint Hamas–Islamic Jihad–Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades operation based in the Nur Shams refugee camp. Terrorists had planted explosives on buses in five separate locations targeting civilians, but a timing malfunction caused a premature explosion that exposed the plot and allowed Israeli forces to dismantle the remaining devices.

The David Institute for Security Policy verified that the plot had Iranian sponsorship, warning that Yehudah and Shomron represent Israel’s “soft underbelly” due to their proximity to major cities and Ben Gurion Airport.

Photographs seized from a Hebron weapons depot revealed active missile production workshops, suggesting that terror groups in the region are now capable of independently manufacturing advanced weapons — mirroring Hamas’s weapons development in Gaza after the 2005 IDF withdrawal.