The Jerusalem District Court has sentenced an Umm-al-Fahm resident to 42 months in prison for moving around 300,000 euros of terror funds from Turkey to Hamas, like reported by jpost.com.
Though the sentence as part of a plea bargain in a conviction for terror financing and providing services for a terror group was handed down on Sunday, the court spokesperson only announced the ruling on Monday.
Further, though the Umm-al-Fahm resident and Israeli citizen, Dar’am Jabareen, transferred the funds from Hamas officials in Turkey to local Hamas officials, the origin of the funds was Qatar.
Jabareen was also fined NIS 20,000 and NIS 560,000 was seized.
Two Hamas officials in Turkey, Zahar Jabareen and Salama Marei, first requested his help in smuggling terror funds to local Hamas chapters during one of his business trips to Turkey in 2016.
Dar’am Jabareen would typically bring the funds to Israel, hide them in a specific spot and transmit the location Hamas’ officials in Turkey who would then arrange for it to be collected.
He continued this activity on several occasions until January 2018 when he was arrested.
Israel and Turkey have had tensions over a range of issues, but one issue has been Turkey’s ongoing providing of a base of operations to Hamas.
