Arab-Israeli Resident in Galilee Arrested For Affiliation With Al-Qaeda Syria Branch

Jerusalem, 21 April, 2016 (TPS) -- The District Court in Haifa sentenced Amin Snobar, resident of the Arab-Israeli town of Kafr Yasif located in the western Galilee region, to 5 years of prison after spending approximately a half a year in Syria training and exercising with the Jabhat al-Nusra rebel group in Syria’s civil war. Jabhat al-Nusra is the Syrian branch of the global al-Qaeda Islamist terror group.

The verdict also mentioned that Snobar illegally left Israel and illegally entered Syria. The Israeli government generally forbids its citizens from entering Syria at all since the country is still considered to be an enemy of Israel.