Incredibly, the state is trying with all its might to fight the phenomenon of transporters of illegal aliens, but the courts impose ridiculous sentences.
Judge Shmuel Herbst recently sentenced Samar al-Qaisi, 39, to one year in prison and a fine of ten thousand shekels, who was convicted several times of transporting prisoners while crossing checkpoints while disguised as a religious-looking Jew with her daughter. Among other things, al-Qaisi is accused of transporting a terrorist who tried to detonate an IED on a bus that only due to a malfunction did not explode.
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According to the indictment, filed by the Jerusalem District Prosecution Unit, al-Qaisi was convicted by her own admission, among other things, of transporting three or more foreign residents, transporting a foreign resident's vehicle, and using a vehicle to commit an offense.
The indictment also states that last March, a man who did not have a permit to enter Israel contacted the defendant by phone and asked her to drive him from the village of Battir into Jerusalem. The defendant arrived at the scene and passed through the tunnel checkpoint while a man was in her car at the entire time.
According to the indictment, Elkisi dropped off the NIS in Jerusalem and he paid her a total of $220 in cash for this service. The passenger entered bus number <> from Beitar Illit to the city of Ashdod, carrying an IED that he tried to detonate and which did not fully explode.
A suspicious car belonging to the Israel Security Agency in Latrun, photo: uncredited
In another indictment attached, Elkisi was driving the car with her minor daughter. At the time, there were six prisoners in the car, who are not allowed to stay in Israel, and who were covered with blankets. A police officer at the scene stopped the defendant's vehicle for inspection and asked to show an ID card, but the defendant closed the car window. The policeman knocked on the window and ordered the defendant to open the door.
The defendant became agitated while talking to the passengers in her car. The defendant returned to her car on the pretext that her minor daughter was there, got into the car, broke through the checkpoint and fled the scene.
The indictment also states that in another case, Elkisi drove toward the tunnel checkpoint and did not heed the orders of a police officer who was there and asked her to stop, switched lanes and was eventually arrested in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood of Jerusalem with her daughter sitting next to her and two illegal aliens on the back bench.
The plea bargain did not include an agreement regarding the sentence, and the prosecution unit sought to impose a three-year prison sentence on the defendant, pointing out the great danger inherent in the defendant's actions.
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By her actions, it is claimed, El-Kisi violated the protected values of the sovereignty of the State of Israel, the security of its citizens and residents, they have the potential to pose a security risk, and it is very difficult to trace the intention of the detainees, and their purpose is unknown. They added that she had to be strict because she posed as a religious woman with a headscarf and even used her minor daughter to flee the scene.
Judge Shmuel Herbst emphasized that a person transporting a vehicle loaded with illegal aliens harms state security and helps create an infrastructure for terrorist activity, and even if he does not intend to cause security damage, he can never know for sure who all his passengers are, and what plots which of them, but decided to make do despite her convictions for a year in prison.
"There is no doubt about the defendant's awareness of the prohibition and risk inherent in her actions, since she committed them after she had already done similar acts and was caught by the police at the time of their commission," the judge wrote, adding: "The defendant allowed the terrorist to enter Israel and place the IED in a bus full of passengers. Fortunately, the IED did not explode, but had its plan been perfect, a mass casualty terrorist incident would have occurred, in which the defendant played a significant part."
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