The Haifa District Attorney's Office on Thursday indicted Amjad Jabarin, 34, from the northern Arab town of Umm al-Fahm on charges of being an accomplice to the July 14 terrorist attack on the Temple Mount, in which Israel Police Staff Sgt. Maj. Haiel Sitawe, 30, and Staff Sgt. Maj. Kamil Shnaan, 22, were killed. Jabarin was indicted on charges of aiding and abetting an act of terror, being an accessory to murder, being an accessory to battery possession of illegal weapons for terrorism purposes, conspiracy to commit a crime and obstruction of justice. According to the indictment, Jabarin, a relative of terrorists Muhammad Ahmed Jabarin, 29, Muhammad Hamed Abdel Latif Jabarin, 19, and Muhammad Ahmed Fadel Jabarin, killed during the attack, was aware of the three's nefarious plan from its early stages, as they spoke to him directly about their intention to murder Jews. The investigation into the attack found that the cell was local to Umm al-Fahm, and its members became radicalized while attending sermons at the town's Al Massa mosque, where Ahmed Jabarin was the muezzin -- the person leading the call to Friday prayers. The mosque had clear ties to the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, outlawed in 2015. The investigation has also established links between the three and other radical Islamic groups. Jabarin himself has been affiliated with the Murabitun, a fundamentalist organization that operates under the guise of Muslim study groups, and for years has engaged in harassing and intimidating Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount and disturbing the peace on the site. The Murabitun and its sister-group the Murabitat were also outlawed in 2015 over their ties with the Islamic Movement and Hamas and for subversive acts seeking to undermine national security. Instead, he drove the three to firearm practice and later, drove two of the terrorists the night before the attack to a bus stop outside Umm al-Fahm from which they traveled to Jerusalem. After the attack, he allegedly hid the three's belongings, entrusted with him before the attack. Also on Thursday, the Military Prosecution charged Omar al-Abed, 19, from the Ramallah-adjacent village of Kaubar, for the July 21 murder of Yosef Salomon, 70, his daughter Chaya, 46, and son Elad, 36, in Yosef's home in Halamish, in Samaria. Abed was indicted before the Judea Military Court on multiple counts of murder and conspiracy to commit an act of terror. Abed's mother, two of his brothers and one of his uncles were questioned last week after the investigation into the attack concluded that multiple family members knew of his intentions but failed to report him to Palestinian or Israeli authorities. An IDF statement said that "the Salomon family receives regular updates on the case from the Military Prosecution."
The prosecution believes the tree terrorists asked Jabarin to take part in the attack on the Temple Mount, but he refused.
Israeli security forces razed Abed's home last week.
