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An Israeli Arab was sentenced to eight years in prison on Sunday for planning terrorist attacks on IDF soldiers in the Negev desert.
Firas al-Omari, 46, was sentenced to prison by a court in the Israeli city of Beersheba in the south of the country. He stated that the terrorist attacks he foresaw would avenge the northern division of the Islamic movement in 2015
Omari was a member of the outlaw movement until 2015 when he later joined Hamas.
According to the prosecution, Omari was planning to aim for a bus stop or military base in the Negev desert and the attack should have been
46 year old Israeli Arab man reportedly also concealed elements of the bomb and reportedly was in possession of an illegal rifle in 2016.
The Beersheba The district court found Omari guilty of belonging to a terrorist group and l '. helping, contacting a foreign agent, buying equipment for terrorist purposes and conspiring to help an enemy in wartime
. State of Israel Judge Natan Zlotchover said in his ruling on Sunday, adding that the fact that Omari is an Israeli citizen makes the case more serious.
Friday, the leader of the North Branch of Islam The movement, Sheikh Raed Salah, was released under house arrest on Friday after serving ten months in an Israeli prison for inciting terror.
The Sheikh will not be allowed to be interviewed by the media or to give public lectures. surveillance at his home in the Arab town of Kafr Kanna, in northern Israel.
Salah was arrested on August 15, 2017 as part of an attack on July 14, 2017 on the holy site of Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Judge Erez Porat of Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court cited Salah's indictment during the judicial proceedings of August 2017, saying that he had made inflammatory statements prompting violence against Israel at a funeral for the attackers who perpetrated the July 14 attack.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged legal measures to ban the Islamic Movement, which he accuses of leading an anti-Israeli "incitement" that encourages violence.
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