Jerusalem, 23 August, 2024 (TPS) -- A 16-year-old Palestinian is under arrest for trying to recruit his classmates into Islamic State, the Israeli Police said on Thursday. The announcement came hours after it was cleared for publication that a doctor in Beer-Sheva was also arrested for membership in the same terror group.
According to police, the suspect, who attends school in eastern Jerusalem, tried to spread ISIS ideology to his classmates. He also adopted the name of a previous ISIS leader as his own nickname on social media.
Police found on his phone a video explaining how to make a bomb and carry out acts of sabotage. Other files included formulas for producing explosive charges and instructions on how to purchase them, content discussing suicide attacks and the murder of innocents in Islamic law, and other inciting content.
Friends told investigators he tried to recruit them into ISIS, threatened those who didn’t, and expressed his desire to carry out an attack with a car bomb.