Palestinian citizen of Israel indicted for joining Syria rebels
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- A Palestinian citizen of Israel was indicted on Wednesday for contact with an enemy agent after he went to Syria and joined rebels fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad, security officials said.
Hikmat Massarwa, from Taibe village in Galilee, was also charged at Lod District Court with undergoing military training and for traveling overseas illegally, the Shin Bet domestic security agency said.
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Massarwa, who was born in 1984, was arrested on March 19 in a joint Shin Bet and police operation after returning from Syria, where he underwent military training with the rebels, the statement said.
"Massarwa went to Syria with the aim of joining world jihad elements who are working against the Syrian army" and had had gone through military training and been instructed on how to use weapons at a rebel camp which he helped set up.
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