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Criminal Case (Be’er Sheva) 20958-08-24 State of Israel – F.M. v. Muhammad Azzam - part 8

April 30, 2026
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The prosecution argued that in light of the changing versions of the defendant and the defense, his qualified confession as to the significance of his commission of the act "expressed" it was required to detail and expand on the main points of its evidence, which prove not only the facts of the indictment beyond a reasonable doubt, but also as clearly indicating that the defendant had joined the terrorist organization Da'ar'ar differently, and therefore he should be considered a member of a terrorist organization.

  1. First, it referred to the defendant's confessions in his interrogations to the Shin Bet and the police, according to which he supported a different appeal and had taken an oath of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State organization; Acknowledgments that he watched the videos of Da'ar'ar in an intense and prolonged manner; He radicalized his ideological views and downloaded files of manuals for the preparation of explosives and poisons to his mobile device.

The defendant's confessions in his interrogations by the Shin Bet: The defendant was interrogated by the interrogator known as "Regev", where, in his first interrogation (P/9) he said that he had started browsing various Dar'ar websites 10 years ago, because he supported the organization's ideology;

In his second interrogation with the so-called "Regev" (P/10), he stated that he had watched the contents of a different Dar'ar out of curiosity and listened to ISIS songs; corresponded with his friend about what he called a "scary archive"; During interrogation (P/11) he claimed that he watched the content out of curiosity and that his use of different proverbs was "joking", whereas in his interrogation (P/12) he had already begun to link his conduct to his mental state following the events of October 7.

Later, in his interrogation by the interrogator "Aya" (P/13, P/14), he said that his mental state deteriorated after October 7, which exacerbated his views and led him to swear an oath of allegiance to the leader of ISIS, to perform a "bi'a" to Khalifa Abu Khafs.  The defendant said that after he made a "vow" he read the formula to his friend from Germany and added that he understood that the meaning of the oath was support for the Islamic State.  In his interrogations, the defendant also admitted that he had searched for and downloaded files dealing with explosives, explosive belts and explosives.

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