Hamas operative who allegedly held Oron Shaul’s body in Gaza to be charged this week |
State prosecutors will file charges this week against the Hamas operative who allegedly held the body of slain soldier Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul in the Gaza Strip for a decade, the Shin Bet, Israel Police, and Israel Defense Forces announced Tuesday.
Ibrahim Hilu, a former Hamas commander who fought in the terror group’s Shati Battalion, will be charged Thursday with “severe security offenses” in the Beersheba District Court, the security bodies said.
Specifically, he will be charged with membership in a terror organization, possession of a weapon as part of a terror organization, and support for an enemy at a time of war, according to the Ynet news site.
Shaul, 20 at the time of his death, was killed in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood during the 2014 Gaza War, when the armored personnel carrier he was traveling in came under fire from anti-tank missiles launched by Hamas.
His body was dragged away from the scene by Hamas operatives and subsequently held in Gaza for over a decade.
Israeli forces engineered the recovery of Shaul’s remains in a........