Cleared for publication: Arab-Israeli arrested for joining Islamic State group
Cleared for publication: The Shin Bet, with cooperation by the Northern District of the Israel Police, arrested a 23-year-old resident of Yafa an-Naseriyye, an Arab council in the lower Galilee, Hamza Sami Sari Magasmah at Ben Gurion Airport a month ago upon his return from Syria on the suspicion he joined the Islamic State group in Syria.
The suspect admitted during questioning that he left for Turkey on October 5th, 2014 with three of his friends, and he and two of the friends decided to continue to Syria in order to join the Islamic State group.
Magasmah and his two friends, also from Yafa an-Nasweriyye, infiltrated Syria and arrived at an Islamic State group registration camp where they were drafted into the terror organization.
