Security forces arrested and interrogated in recent months 10 Islamic activists, including four “senior members” of Israel’s Islamic Movement who allegedly fomented unrest at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the Shin Bet announces.
Palestinian Muslim women from the Murabitat group shout slogans and hold the Quran during a protest against Israeli policemen preventing them from entering the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on September 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90 )
In a statement, the security agency says four of the activists sought to keep up the activity of the Murabitun and Murabitat — groups of men and women, respectively, that were known to harass Jewish visitors at the Mount — which Israel outlawed in 2015.
The four allegedly “maintained a prodigious, organized network for fundraising and paying Murabitun activists, including a system that provided rides from all over the country to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount,” the Shin Bet says.
They are indicted in the Nazareth District Court on charges of illegal assembly and money laundering.
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