Arab Israeli stripped of citizenship over 2015 terror attack

6 August 2017, 2:16 pm

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In a rare move, the Haifa Magistrate’s Court strips the citizenship of an Arab Israeli who carried out a car-ramming and stabbing attack in 2015.

Alaa Raed Ahmad Ziwad, 20, was indicted on terrorism charges later in 2015 for the attack, in which he seriously wounded a soldier and moderately injured three others near Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, northeast of Hadera.

“The respondent breached his duty towards his own country and very much harmed the security of the state and its citizens in a terror attack carried out for nationalistic motives,” the court said in the decision.

The ruling comes in response to a petition filed by Interior Minister Aryeh Deri who demanded Ziad be stripped of his Israeli citizenship.