Bag full of Islamic State flags discovered in north Israel Materials belonging to banned jihadist group found in Nazareth Illit industrial area; police open investigation Police launched an investigation Tuesday morning after a bag containing dozens of Islamic State flags was found in an industrial area in Nazareth Illit by a municipal worker. Police said the bag contained some 25 small flags, with holders to attach them to cars, belonging to the outlawed extremist group. A team of city gardeners discovered the bag hidden between some bushes and reported it to the police, who opened a probe, police said in a statement. Nazareth Illit Mayor Alex Gadalkin said he was disturbed by the bag’s discovery, the Ynet news outlet reported. “When something like this is discovered in the heart of a Jewish city, it needs to light up many warning signs,” he said. Possession of materials from a designated terror organization, such as the Islamic State, is illegal under Israeli law. The group was officially declared a terror organization by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon earlier this year, giving officials wider tools to prosecute suspected members. Built as a development neighborhood for Jewish immigrants next to the Arab city of Nazareth, Nazareth Illit, or upper Nazareth, has been the site of ethnic tensions in the past. The city’s former mayor Shimon Gafsou, currently suspended amid a graft probe, made headlines in 2013 after remarking that the city would not allow mosques or Arab schools. The discovery of the flags comes as Israeli officials, along with European governments, have become increasingly concerned about citizens traveling abroad to join Islamic State fighters in Syria or Iraq, where thousands of foreigners are believed to have joined the jihadist organization. In early September, an Israeli citizen was found guilty of traveling to an enemy country and joining Islamic State during a four-month stay in Syria earlier this year. timesofisrael/bag-full-of-islamic-state-flags-discovered-in-north/#ixzz3FSu3kcK2 Everyone kept asking where all those black ISIS flags were coming from and now we know. They come from Israel!
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:09:09 +0000
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