The Israeli girl who crossed the border into Syria last month and was returned in a Russian-mediated prisoner exchange was charged on Sunday for allegedly violating state security, Israeli media reported. The woman, whose name is still banned from being published, criticized the decision. “Unlike previous cases in which there was a violation of state security and no charges were brought against people who crossed the border, in this case, it is clear to everyone that the young woman did no harm to anyone and had no intention of jeopardizing the state, ”
Attorneys Anat Yaari and Iyad Azzam of the Public Defender, who represent the woman, said in a statement after the indictment. “It is, therefore, very intriguing that precisely against a young woman with no criminal record who comes from a complex past they have chosen to bring an indictment.” Israeli law prohibits citizens from traveling to enemy states, prohibits citizens from enemy states from crossing into Israel, and prohibits Israelis from doing business with enemy states without special government permission. Syria is on the list of enemy states, and several Israeli Arabs who crossed the border into Syria and have returned over the years have been indicted for this. The young woman claimed to have crossed the border “by mistake” and was immediately arrested, the Syrian state news agency reported, but an IDF investigation revealed that she had crossed near Mount Hermon in a part of the border where there is no fence. She apparently tried to cross into the Gaza Strip, but was stopped by IDF troops. Her Facebook page shows that she spends time with Palestinian families in the West Bank. In return for his return, Israel freed two pastors who had crossed over to Israel and also agreed to buy more than a million dollars worth of Russian vaccines for Syria.
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if (window.location.pathname.indexOf (“656089”)! = -1) {console.log (“hedva connatix”); document.getElementsByClassName (“divConnatix”)[0].style.display = “none”;}The Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) questioned the woman and released her to the police, apparently believing that there was no intention of committing terrorist activities or spying. She was just looking for adventures as part of her ideological goal of visiting Arabs in different places to build bridges, determined the Shin Bet.Yonah Jeremy Bob contributed to this report.