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Yosef Janid and Issa Bichon had plans to “liberate” the Al-Aqsa Mosque atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City from Israeli control.
The men allegedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and had concrete plans to leave Israel and join the terror group.
The law seeks to contain the phenomenon of “lone wolf” terrorism.
After security forces destroyed al-Arouri’s home in the village of Arura north of Ramallah, they hung a combined Hamas and ISIS flag on its ruins with the inscription “Hamas=ISIS.”
“I was the guy that initially put the ISIS campaign together. And I know a lot about ISIS, and this is worse than what I saw with ISIS,” Lloyd Austin told the prime minister.
The flag was found on the body of a terrorist killed by Israeli forces in Kibbutz Sufa near the Gaza Strip.
“We did not move the carrier for Hamas. We moved the carrier to send a clear message of deterrence to other states or non-state actors that might seek to widen this war,” said Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser.
Salafi jihadist organizations like ISIS and Al Qaeda haven’t vanished, terrorism experts warn, and continue to try and recruit within Israel itself.
More than 40 mainly high school students were killed and several were taken hostage.
Gadi Eisenkot said that Jerusalem was asked to act by an unspecified third party, and that the activity spanned “many more than one country.”
“Jews have been persecuted for centuries, and they showed a lot of solidarity and compassion as they were able to relate to us,” said Jamileh Naso, president of the Canadian Yazidi Association.
The Tomb of Jonah was not presented to him as a Jewish site, Iraqi historian Omar Mohammed says.
