They came to study dentistry in Romania, but, in the meantime, they came up with a better idea: join Hamas. Two Israeli Arabian dentists, who had been accused of helping Hamas to launch terrorist attacks, have been accused by a courtroom in Haifa (Israel) yesterday.
The two dentists have been arrested in Israel after being suspected of joining Hamas at the beginning of the 90s, when they were still students in Romania. According to Channel 1 from the Israeli television, the two seem to have studied in Cluj and ended their studies in 93-94. This means they came to study here when Ceausescu was still ruling, in 86 - 87. The two were suspected of being Hamas agents, in Israel, between 1993 and 2003, and of giving themselves up to collecting information about public spaces, but they have also tried to recruit some other people in the benefit of the Israeli organization. They seemed quite acquisitive in Romania: Nazmi graduation mark was 9.42, and Zidanâs 9.00.
IDENTIFIED We are talking about Nazmi Hussein (35 years old), from Nazareth, and about Abdel Salam Zidan (36 years old), from the Kfar Manda village, from Northern Galilee. The two have been arrested in September after an operation of the Israeli police together with Shin Beth, the internal security service of Israel.
THE RECRUITMENT According to Haaretz, Nazmi Hussein said during the interrogatory at Shin Beth that he had contacted a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which got him through to Hamas, in the period in which he was attending some religion courses "at a local Mosque in Romania". According to certain Israeli sources, the one that recruited him would have had a Jordanian passport. Hussein is suspected of having officially joined Hamas in 1994, after being sent in Turkey, for some training for five days. In Istanbul, he was taught surveillance, information gathering and coding techniqu
