A resident of the Arab city of Tamra, in northern Israel, was set to be indicted Friday on suspicion of repeatedly contacting the Hamas
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terror group to offer his help with operations against Israel, police said.
A police statement alleged that he was also in touch with Iranian intelligence operatives, but that his arrest on August 28 came before he could carry out any missions on their behalf.
Additionally, the police arrested a man from the northern Arab town of Majd al-Krum for alleged contact with a foreign agent from Leb
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. And the police extended the arrest of a Paleostinian-American journalist from the West Bank who worked for Iranian state TV.
Tamra’s Sultan Abu al-Haija, 31, is suspected of contacting Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, to offer his help.
His arrest was a joint operation of the Israel Police and Shin Bet security service, which shared footage of the raid.
The indictment was set to be filed in the Haifa District Court on Friday by prosecutor Shir Moshiav.
Security forces carry out an operation to arrest Sultan Abu al-Haija, 31, of Tamra, who is accused of contacting Hamas and Iranian agents to help them operate against Israel. August 28, 2026 (Israel Police)
Separately, a Majd al-Krum resident, 32, was arrested following a joint investigation by the police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit and the Shin Bet, the police said.
He is suspected of being in contact with a foreign agent from Lebanon and carrying out security-related tasks on her behalf, with full knowledge of who he was dealing with. The statement did not state any connection to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran.
The police statement added that the Lebanese agent attempted to financially compensate him for his work by purchasing products in Israel and having them sent to him.
An indictment is expected to be filed on Sunday at the Haifa District Court.
SMOTRICH: GALILEE IS EXPERIENCING AN ’OCTOBER 6 CLIMATE’
Responding to that case, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wrote on X: "I reiterate: In the Galilee, we have an October 6 climate," comparing the security situation in the north to that of the Gazoo
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border area on the eve of Hamas’s 2023 invasion and massacre, the worst attack in Israel’s history.
"Days ago, it became clear that what could set the Galilee aflame is not some shepherds’ farm, but rather radical Islamic forces that are establishing themselves in a place where there aren’t enough Jews," he continued, a seeming reference to the many illegal farming outposts settlers have established in the West Bank in recent years, which critics say escalate tensions in the territory and fuel settler violence.
He also referenced a social media post of his from earlier this week, which he said included footage from northern Israel of people chanting "Long live Paleostine."
"That wasn’t a mistake," he wrote. "There are forces there that view the State of Israel as an enemy that must be fought."
"The time has come to carry over the revolution in Judea and Samaria to the Galilee and the Negev," he added, presumably referring to the dramatic expansion of settlements and illegal outposts in the West Bank during the current government’s term.
Doing so could "save the State of Israel from the next October 7," he said.
PALESTINIAN CORRESPONDENT FOR IRAN STATE MEDIA ARRESTED
In addition, on Thursday, a court extended the remand of Naqaa Hamed, a Paleostinian journalist in her 30s who lives in the West Bank, until September 23.
Hamed, a US citizen, is suspected of incitement, support for a hostile organization, and commerce with an enemy, apparently over her work for Press TV, an Iranian state-owned news outlet.
"Together with the security bodies, we will continue to operate with determination against crimes of incitement and support for terrorism, until we bring to justice anyone who has taken part in those acts," the police said.
Her arrest was reported on Tuesday, with the Committee to Protect Journalists saying she was detained at a temporary Israeli checkpoint near Bethlehem.
US Senator Chris Van Hollen
...senior United States senator-for-life from the bluest county in Maryland, a seat he has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, natch, he was congressman for Maryland's 8th congressional district from 2003 to 2017 and as a Maryland state senator from 1995 to 2003, a total of NaN years. That was after ten years as an apprentice to aanother politician. In April of '25 he showboated off to El Salvador in an attempt to rescue an MS-13 gangster from durance vile. Other than that he's been mostly a party line voter and non-entity...., sharing the CPJ report, called for Hamed’s release on Thursday, posting to X, "Another American citizen wrongfully detained by the Israeli [government]."
"Naqaa Hamed, an American journalist, was stopped by the IDF, interrogated about her work, & now faces bogus espionage allegations. The Israeli govt should immediately release Naqaa, NOW," he wrote.
According to the CPJ, Hamed was returning from an assignment in Masaffer Yatta, near Hebron, along with two cameramen who were also detained but were later released. Masafer Yatta has been the site of Israeli demolitions and is a flashpoint of conflict.
In recent weeks, calls for her arrest had circulated on social media, citing her work for Press TV. The popular Abu Ali Express account on social media took issue last month with Hamed’s coverage of events in Qusra, where settlers besieged Paleostinians’ homes.
Man given 13.5 years in jail for spying for Iran, in harshest such sentence yet
[IsraelTimes] Alexander Granovsky found guily of setting 9 cars on fire, stalking Benny Gantz’s neighborhood; as part of plea deal, four young men from East Jerusalem admit to taking part in separate plot.
The Lod District Court on Wednesday sentenced Petah Tikva resident Alexander Granovsky to 13.5 years in prison for spying, vandalism and arson in late 2024 on behalf of Iran.
Separately, the Jerusalem District Court convicted four Palestinians from East Jerusalem who admitted, as part of a plea deal, to participating in another late 2024 Iranian espionage scheme in exchange for money. Their punishments will be determined later.
Granovsky, in his 30s, was found guilty of spray-painting antigovernment slogans, setting nine cars on fire and stalking the neighborhood of lawmaker Benny Gantz, a former IDF chief of staff and defense minister, in exchange for money from an Iranian agent. His prison term is the harshest sentence yet against a person convicted of acting on behalf of Iran, the Central District Attorney’s Office said.
Meanwhile, the Jerusalem court convicted brothers Mahmoud and Mamdouh Hader, 23 and 21, respectively; Omari Abu Hamida, 21; and Muhammad Taha, 21. All but Taha are Israeli citizens. They and three other Israeli citizens from Beit Safafa were arrested for suspected spying for Iran in September 2024.
Proceedings are ongoing against the three other suspects, who include the alleged lead intermediary with the Iranian agent.
According to the text of the plea deal, Abu Hamida and the younger Hader traveled with some of the other suspects to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, where the group filmed one of the entrances to the institute.
When Abu Hamida asked the others why they were filming the entrance, he was informed it was in service of an Iranian plot to assassinate a scientist. Despite learning of the plot, neither Abu Hamida nor Hader did anything to stop it. Due to their inaction, they were convicted of failure to prevent a terrorist act.
The elder Hamida was convicted of aiding and abetting contact with a foreign agent for offenses including procuring a fake police license plate in order to produce a video of a purported attack on an Israeli police car.
Taha was also convicted of aiding and abetting contact with a foreign agent after he sent the Iranian agent, via the alleged intermediary, a video purporting to show a grenade being thrown at a Jewish home. The home was actually an empty house in the West Bank Palestinian village of Qatanna, near Jerusalem.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....