Prosecutors are preparing to file charges against four young men from the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, arrested on suspicion of training with illegal firearms to carry out criminal attacks.
According to a source in the State Attorney’s Office, Shin Bet and police investigators initially probed the suspects on terror-related suspicions, but later found that they did not harbor nationalist motives.
Police say they seized illegal firearms from the suspects’ possession, including two handguns, a Carlo submachine gun, an M-16, and ammunition.
The four, all men in their 20s, were arrested amid a surging violent crime wave in Arab society, fueled by rampant arms trafficking, which has claimed 73 victims in the community since the beginning of the year.
A prosecutor’s declaration has been filed against the four, and the State Attorney’s Office plans to indict them in the coming days.
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