Israel arrests 6 over Turkey money transfer scheme: What we know
The announcement of the indictments comes as Israel over the past week has expanded its operations in the West Bank.
Israeli state prosecutors filed an indictment against six men charged with transferring funds from Turkey to militant groups in the occupied West Bank.
A statement released by Israeli police and the Shin Bet on Thursday morning identified the six men as Fadi Arabi, Mohammad al-Zeits, Adham Dolani, William Hanna, Sami Hanna and Suhail Bashir. Israeli police said all of the men are Israeli-Arabs.
The men are accused of contacting a foreign agent, “carrying out property operations related to terrorism” and conspiracy to commit a crime, according to the statement.
Israeli authorities said that an interrogation of two of the men — Zeits and Dolani — revealed that over 3 million shekels (roughly $800,000), originating from “terrorist elements” in Turkey, were transferred by the men to the West Bank. The authorities said that these funds were “intended to promote terrorist activity against the State of Israel.”
