An East Jerusalem resident is indicted for incitement over social media posts allegedly praising Hamas and terror attacks against Israelis.
Suzan Abu Ghannam, a 39-year-old from the mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood of Abu Tor, is also charged at the Jerusalem District Court with identifying with a terror group.
According to the indictment, Abu Ghannam often praised Hamas, its military wing and some of its late members, among them top bomb-maker Yahya Ayyash, who was responsible for dozens of Israeli deaths before he was assassinated in 1996.
She also praised the assailants behind a number of terror attacks over the past year, most recently the Palestinian teenager who stabbed to death an Israeli man in the West Bank settlement of Adam last month.
Prosecutors request to keep Abu Ghannam in custody until the end of legal proceedings against her.
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