In a joint operation by the General Security Service and the police, Ahmed Fawaz Abdel Aziz Daas, a 27-year-old Israeli citizen and resident of Tira, was arrested for questioning on suspicion of contacting an Iranian official and carrying out missions under his direction.
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Today (Thursday), at the end of his interrogation, the State Attorney's Office filed an indictment against him with the Central Lod District Court for committing the offenses of contacting a foreign agent and passing information to the enemy with the intent to harm the security of the state out of ideological motives.
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The indictment filed by attorney Hila Cohen Kadosh of the Central District Attorney's Office indicates that Daesh - for ideological reasons based on its hatred of the State of Israel and during Operation "Roar of the Lion" - had active contact with a foreign agent hostile to the State of Israel and passed him documentation and locations of sensitive facilities, including seaports, power plants and an IDF base.
Daas, who worked as a truck driver for a transportation company and traveled throughout the country as part of his job, took advantage of his position to carry out documentation tasks for the Iranian agent, knowing that he was a hostile entity working to collect secret information or engage in other acts that could harm the security of the State of Israel.
As part of the relationship between the two, the agent asked Madas to photograph "important places" and places where Jews gather.
Daesh sent the agent locations of strategic places, sometimes even showing him in video calls where to launch missiles, and conditioned continued cooperation in exchange for "results in the place where he sent the documentation.".
Among other things, Daas sent the agent videos documenting the port and power plant in Ashdod, the Israel Aerospace Industries building from various angles, as well as the police station and the city hall.
As part of the contact, the agent offered Daesh payment for carrying out the missions, but he rejected his offer, as stated, on ideological grounds.
The Attorney General's Office is asking the court to order the continued detention of Da'as until the end of the legal proceedings against him, as he committed security offenses while the State of Israel is waging one of the most difficult wars it has ever known, on many fronts, including Iran, and in the midst of a missile attack on the State of Israel that has claimed the lives of civilians and caused many casualties.
This case joins a series of Iranian attempts that have been exposed in recent months, in which social networks and digital platforms were used to recruit Israeli citizens for espionage and sabotage missions.
