Incidents of support for Hamas acts and incitement to terrorism have become more and more common in recent days following the fighting. The police began to act harshly on the issue, announcing that it would "show zero tolerance for any manifestation of support for the enemy and incitement to terrorism, especially in times of war."
A pizzeria in Huwara is dismantled after being advertised with a captive photo
In one case, the court extended by three days the detention of Abdel Rahim Haj Yahya, a 22-year-old man from Taibeh, who was arrested on suspicion of publishing praise that could lead to terrorism, publishing incitement to racism, and publishing support for a terrorist organization and incitement to terrorism.
The young man posted praise for the Hamas terrorists on social networks, including videos and a number of photos from the terrorists' infiltration into Israeli territory. He added his own caption - "Historic day". Regarding previous terrorist incidents in the country, he posted photos of terrorists and called them "shaheeds."
Demonstration in support of shaheeds in Jenin, Tel Aviv University, photo: Gideon Markowitz
When the suspect was arrested at his home, a Palestinian Authority flag was waving in his room. During interrogation, he admitted that he had published the statements attributed to him, but claimed that he did not intend to support terrorist acts or incite terrorism.
After the attorney general's approval, he was arrested and brought to an extension of his detention.
The defense attorney, Ahmad Yassin, asked for the suspect's release, noting that there is no need to let the emotion and the excitement and what is happening take precedence, and that this will lead to the fact that, God forbid, "a situation could arise in which we rush to arrest a young man whose only thing he did was something nonsensical, in the heat of things, without understanding and without forethought."
Judge Aviv Sharon, who extended Hajj Yahya's detention by three days, noted in his decision that: "In light of the period we are in, the height of the campaign on the southern border, there is concern that the continuation of such publications by the suspect or potential suspects will continue to inflame the atmosphere and, God forbid, may serve as a platform for young people and other people to take the initiative and carry out acts of terror or incite to such acts of terror."
Bodies covered near a building destroyed by terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
In another case, police officers from the Kafr Qasim police station arrested a minor resident of the city on Thursday after he shared a post by the Hamas terrorist organization with a video praising and praising the terrorist attacks last Saturday.
The minor, a 14-year-old resident of the city, was brought to the station accompanied by his mother, who began to rage and violently assault a policewoman from the station, while shouting racist slogans at her. At the end of their interrogation, the minor and his mother were detained, and a hearing will be held this morning on their request to extend their detention.
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