{"id":284255,"date":"2026-02-10T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/284255\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:52:07","slug":"benjamin-netanyahu-revokes-terrorists-israeli-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/284255\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Netanyahu revokes terrorist’s Israeli citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Israeli terrorists had their citizenship revoked and were expelled from the country for the first time in history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

One terrorist, Mahmoud Ahmed, was charged with a string of shooting attacks against IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens in 2021. He was released from prison in 2024 and will be immediately deported.<\/p>\n

The other terrorist<\/a>, Muhammad Ahmed Hussein Helsi, was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a stabbing attack in 2016 and is due to be released in 2034, when he will be deported.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t give in or relax,” said coalition whip Ofir Katz when the terrorists’ deportation was announced. “For three years, I pressured the system to implement my law, and finally, it’s happening. This is how we fight terror.”<\/p>\n

The bill to revoke Israeli citizenship or residency from convicted terrorists receiving stipends from the PA<\/a> became law in 2023. The bill had received wide bipartisan support during the legislative process, with some opposition from Arab parties.<\/p>\n

The law reasons that compensation from the PA to a terrorist creates an authoritative relationship between the two, thereby allowing such terrorists to be stripped of citizenship and deported to PA territories in the West Bank<\/a> or Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

Michael Starr contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Israeli terrorists had their citizenship revoked and were expelled from the country for the first time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,21171,42,43,98,2896,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-284255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-deportation","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorist","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}