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| Israeli Said Slain Fighting For Islamic State |
| 2014-09-23 |
| [IsraelTimes] An Israeli Bedouin who joined the Islamic State was killed in Syria fighting for the radical jihadist group, Channel 10 reported on Sunday. The unidentified man died last week after earlier crossing the border along with another member of his family, which hails from an unrecognized Bedouin community in southern Israel. The news report gave no indication of the man's identity, the manner of his death, or the source of the information. If confirmed, the man may be the first Israeli killed fighting for the Islamic State. Israeli security forces received information about the man's plan to enter Syria before he had left the country, but were unable to act in time to prevent him slipping across the border, the report said. In May, the Shin Bet security service said in a statement that an Arab Israeli from the town of Hura in the Negev Desert was arrested in late April for helping two family members leave Israel, enter Syria, and join the ranks of the Islamic State. Idris Abu Alqayan, 23, was arrested on April 28 and charged on May 15 with conspiracy to commit a crime and aiding an unlawful exit from the country. It was not clear whether the Israeli killed last week was one of the two that Alqayan aided in leaving the country. At the beginning of September, the Shin Bet said that there are 10 Israeli-Arabs who are known to be fighting with the Islamic State, which has conquered large areas of Syria and Iraq. Around 200,000 Bedouin live in the Negev, most concentrated in an area around the city of Beersheba. |
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