There’s no evidence that members of the Islamic Movement arrested this week in Israel used funds to directly finance terror attacks, Israeli police said. “We do not claim that the money was used to buy explosive belts” for suicide bombers, a police spokeswoman said. But the movement is suspected of transferring money from abroad to help support families of suicide bombers.
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