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Itongadol.- The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) has arrested seven Israeli Arabs, residents of the Galilee, for setting up an official Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate branch in Israel, it was cleared for publication Sunday.
The Shin Bet said that the seven admitted that over the last year they had formed a group centering around the idea of global jihad, and later declared it to be ISIS-inspired.
One of them also admitted to purchasing weapons to commit terror attacks on Israelis, specifically against the security establishment and the Druze community, in ISIS\’s name. Several more Galilee residents were arrested in this context.
An indictment has been filed against all seven, now named as:
Adnan Jameel Said Al-A-Din, 40, from Nazareth; a lawyer by trade.
Karim Morsal Khaled Abu Saleh, aged 22, from Sakhnin.
Hussam Aziz Hamdal Marsiat, aged 30, a resident of Deir Hanna and past terrorist prisoner.
Alaa Mahmoud Khaled Abu Saleh, aged 27, from Beer Sheva; originally from Sakhnin.
Fadi Mohammed Salim Bashir, aged 29, a resident of Sakhnin.
Khaled Marsal Khaled Abu Saleh, aged 30, a resident of Sakhnin.
Mohammed Ibrahim Mohammed Abu-Saleh, aged 27, a resident of Sakhnin, a pharmacy intern by trade.
All seven met with a senior Sheikh running anti-Israel terror groups in the north, who was not named in the report; the Sheikh encouraged them to form the jihadist group and carry out terror attacks.
Meeting the group held included preparations to join ISIS in Syria, tutorials on how to make Molotov cocktails, and animal slaughter as "training" to slaughter "infidels" in jihadist attacks.
In addition, the group was in touch with ISIS terrorists via social media, including with other Israeli Arabs who have left for Syria to join the group. In October, sources revealed that no fewer than 30 Arab citizens of Israel have joined ISIS; there is a move in the Knesset to revoke their citizenship.