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Israeli dentist gets 20 months for delivering cash to Hamas
[IsraelTimes] Kafr Kanna man was caught when he went to the West Bank to hand money over to members of the Paleostinian terror groupAn Arab Israeli dentist was sentenced Tuesday to 20 months in prison for aiding the Paleostinian terrorist group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, by transferring large sums of money to members of the organization in the West Bank. The Nazareth District Court handed down the sentence to 32-year-old Malik Jamil Mubarak Khatib from the northern Arab Israeli town of Kafr Kanna. He also received an NIS 50,000 ($13,000) fine. Khatib was apprehended in May 2015 in a joint operation by the Shin Bet security service and police while on his way to the Paleostinian West Bank city of Ramallah. A sum of NIS 170,000 (about $43,700) in cash was found in Khatib's possessions at the time of the arrest. The court mentioned in its ruling that the Shin Bet had specifically warned Khatib not to engage in such activity on two occasions in the weeks prior to his arrest. During his interrogation, Khatib admitted he had transferred funds to Hamas activists and further confessed that he had assisted Paleostinians from Gazoo to enter Israeli territory illegally. Khatib said he had received payments in exchange for driving Paleostinians without permits across the Strip's border on a nearly daily basis. During the trial the court heard that Khatib had been paid 1,000 shekels for each transfer he made. The judges noted that Khatib had not been involved in any terror activity himself but said his actions warranted a harsh punishment due to use of the money by the terror groups he worked for. "These crimes have immense potential to harm state security and its citizens," wrote justices Esther Hellman and Danny Tzafarti in the ruling. "Even though the defendant may regret his actions, we have no choice but to treat this behavior with the full force of the law." Posted by: trailing wife 2016-02-12 |
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