A Palestinian youth allegedly recruited by Hamas to promote anti-occupation attacks in Israel was charged at the end of March by an Israeli military Court the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said officially clearing for release information about the suspect on Wednesday.
According to the Jerusalem Post daily Qalqilya resident Malak Nazar Kazmar 23 was arrested in a joint manhunt by Shin Bet and the army on February 26 2017.
The Shin Bet claimed that Kazmar who had lived in Turkish Cyprus for the last few years had been recruited by Hamas while he was in Jordan in August 2015 and sent to a training camp in Syria’s Idlib province in January 2016. In the training camp Kazmar learned to shoot and underwent theoretical training on the production of explosive devices.
In January 2017 shortly before he returned to the occupied West Bank he met with Hamas operatives in Istanbul who instructed him to recruit additional Hamas operatives who lived in Israel according to the same source.
Kazmar was arrested on his return to the West Bank before he could carry out the instructions he was allegedly given to try to find potential activists who could join Hamas ranks.
