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3 Arab Israelis arrested for alleged IS ties, plans to join jihadist group in Africa | ||
2022-08-16 | ||
[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet says 21-year-olds from Umm al-Fahm sought to travel to Nigeria where ’intense fighting’ occurs; Bedouin man planned to fight for group in Israel The Shin Bet security agency announced Monday that in recent weeks three Arab men were arrested for alleged affiliation with Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... and plans to fight with the jihadist group in Africa. On July 14, Muhammad Farouk Yusef Agbaria and Abd al-Mahdi Masoud Muhammad Jabarin, both 21 from the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm,
The Shin Bet said the pair were "closely monitored by security forces, given that they were identified to have extreme Salafi-jihadist ideologies." According to the Shin Bet, Agbaria and Jabarin consulted another Umm al-Fahm man, who recently returned to Israel from fighting with al-Qaeda in Africa, on how to travel there.
Ahead of their planned trip to Africa, the pair also practiced shooting and "consumed bully boy Islamic State content," including beheading videos, the agency added. In a separate case, a Bedouin man from a village in the Rafa’i’a area, east of Beersheba, was detained on July 22 for alleged affiliation with Islamic State. In his interrogation, Muhammad al-Rafa’i’a, 30, admitted he supported Islamic State and its goals, and sought to fight for the group in Israel, the Shin Bet said. Al-Rafa’i’a also conducted shooting practice for the purpose of fighting for the jihadist group "when the time comes," according to the agency. The Shin Bet did not release a photo of al-Rafa’i’a. Agbaria, Jabarin, and al-Rafa’i’a were each charged with "serious security offenses" and other weapons-related offenses, according to the Shin Bet. "The Shin Bet will continue to act in accordance with the authority given to it by law and will take all the measures at its disposal in order to deal with phenomena related to extreme Islamic ideologies, and to thwart intentions to harm the security of the State of Israel, and will strictly prosecute all those involved in terror activities," the agency said in the statement. Earlier this year, Israeli authorities arrested dozens of alleged Islamic State members following two deadly terror attacks — in Hadera and Beersheba — by Arab Israelis thought to have been inspired by the jihadist group. Another deadly attack in Jerusalem in March was later revealed to have been committed by an Islamic State supporter, who also killed an elderly couple in the same area three years prior. Related: Umm al-Fahm: 2022-05-19 Umm al-Fahm man accused of charging smugglers to use section of West Bank barrier Umm al-Fahm: 2022-05-03 East Jerusalem sheikh indicted for inciting violence in Al-Aqsa Mosque speech Umm al-Fahm: 2022-05-02 Police arrest 5 for suspected attacks on buses going to Western Wall during Passover Related: East of Beersheba: 2016-10-13 Riots erupt in east Jerusalem on Yom Kippur, Silwan man killed in clash with police East of Beersheba: 2016-09-15 Israeli trio accused of smuggling cars into Gaza East of Beersheba: 2016-06-11 The route to terror: Police reveal how gunmen got from Hebron to Tel Aviv | ||
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