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Deri moves to strip Israeli IS fighters of citizenship
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael will strip 20 citizens who left the country to fight with the Islamic State jihadist group of their citizenship, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri says.
According to Deri, an amendment to Israel’s nationality act which went into force this month allows those engaged in hostile activity to be stripped of their citizenship in absentia.
“I asked that the citizenship of 20 such Israelis be revoked,” he tells army radio.
The Shin Bet security service has in the past estimated that several dozen Israeli nationals had been fighting for IS in Iraq and Syria but yesterday announced that “about 20” remain active.
— with AFP
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