Two Arab Israeli cousins are sentenced to approximately three years of prison time for supporting the Islamic State terrorist group and planning attacks in a Nazareth court.
The cousins, Ahmad Talal Ahmad Saidah, 20, and Muhammad Omar Bader Hassan, 23, were picked up by law enforcement on November 22 and indicted in late December.
During their interrogations, the cousins told investigators they had planned to join the Islamic State group in Syria, but upon hearing the stories of refugees fleeing the area decided to instead return to Israel and carry out attacks here.
The court finds them guilty of “supporting the Islamic State, contact with a foreign agent, conspiracy to commit a terror attack,” along with some lesser charges.
Hassan, a resident of Reineh, outside Nazareth, receives a sentence of 30 months in prison, while his cousin, from nearby Umm al-Ghanam, gets a 36-month sentence.
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