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Egged will fire driver due to publications identifying with terrorists; The employee: "They attacked me" - Walla! news

2022-03-08T09:09:40.541Z


A month after she hired him, Egged is expected to fire Balal Hamad, a resident of Haifa, after she claimed in his Facebook posts that he "supports terrorism and even wishes to die as a 'martyr'." According to Hamad, "Ben Gvir's friends published it." Egged: "There is a reasonable fear of a threat to the company." This week the company will hold a hearing for him


Egged will fire driver due to publications identifying with terrorists;

Employee: "They attacked me"

A month after she hired him, Egged is expected to fire Balal Hamad, a resident of Haifa, after she claimed in his Facebook posts that he "supports terrorism and even wishes to die as a 'martyr'."

According to Hamad, "Ben Gvir's friends published it."

Egged: "There is a reasonable fear of a threat to the company."

This week the company will hold a hearing for him

Yoav Itiel

08/03/2022

Tuesday, 08 March 2022, 01:26 Updated: 10:47

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In the video: A bus is pelted with stones on the way to Eilat (Photo: Egged)

The Egged company suspended its driver in Haifa after it claimed that it had "been informed" that in its Facebook posts it "supports terrorism, identifies with terrorists and even wishes to die as a 'martyr'."

This, a month after she hired him for work and during the week he will have a hearing in preparation for dismissal.



According to the company, an investigation revealed that the driver from the Hof Hacarmel Central Station branch, Balal Hamad, "writes and shares his extreme views, including posting pictures of murderous terrorists, explosive belts and many other publications, for several years."

The company says that he even identifies as an Egged employee.



Last Tuesday, the company held a clarification call with the driver, and it appears that he admitted to some of the publications but claims that some of the publications were forged and not made at all by him.

Society does not accept this argument.

"As a public transportation service operator, there is a great deal of responsibility towards our passengers and road users, so we can not move on to the agenda for your behavior and inciting publications," he said.

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Posts by Balal Hamad (Photo: Official Website, Facebook Page)

"The truth is I was more offended by Egged."

Balal Hamad (Photo: Official Website, Egged Facebook Page)

Egged claims that the driver's conduct "raises a reasonable fear of a threat to the company, its employees, passengers and road users, due to your inciting publications, which increase your support for terrorism, including terrorists who murdered innocent civilians."

She also said that she could not tolerate such serious and difficult behavior, in all its aspects, "including the security aspect."



"I got sick of this story," says Balal Hamad, a 30-year-old Haifa resident, married with a daughter, in a conversation with Walla !.

"I do not hide that I am a religious person, and Sheikh Raed Salah was my teacher and tutor of my religion, and that I have pictures with him. But as soon as he went the other way I went the other way and did not continue in his way at all. They claim that I posted videos and names of people from Hamas but I have never had any connection with Hamas, I have never posted Hamas videos and strangely what they showed me is like three videos posted at the same time, on the same day in 2017. My high-tech friends checked out This and they saw that it was a fake. I was hurt by Egged. I cried from Egged's conduct. She did not check the truth. I was immediately suspended.

Posts by Balal Hamad (Photo: Official Website, Facebook Page)

Ron Ratner, an Egged spokesman, said that "driver Bilal Hamad joined Egged in early 2022 as a new driver. We began an internal investigation into the matter in consultation with the competent security officials, including the security officer at the Ministry of Transportation. The public in general. "



Advocate Muhammad Said, representing the driver, said that "this is a strange conduct by Egged.

This is a normative, serious, educated man with degrees and a clean record in the police and the GSS. Only a month ago he was hired, so if there was something from 2017 they would probably get on it then. He loves Al Aqsa does not deny and that is his right. But He in no way said that he hoped to be a martyr and that he did not, God forbid, support terrorism. "

He added that "this is a bunch of racist Jews who hate Arabs who influenced Egged, but we will go to the end in the courts, we will demand compensation for what they did to him and his return to work. The dismissals are illegal and have no basis. We will sue those who published the forgery. Also a complaint to the police that they will investigate who forged. "



The hearing, which was scheduled to take place on Sunday, was postponed for the rest of the week, as Hamad informed Egged that he was ill.

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