Palestinian Gets 9 Years for Hacking ‘Israeli’ Drones
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A Zionist court on Thursday sentenced a Gazan computer engineer to nine years in jail for hacking into ‘Israeli' drones for the Islamic Jihad movement.
A transcript of the court proceedings released by the ministry said that Majid Oweida, a 23-year-old from Gaza, had been convicted of "spying and other offences", following a plea-bargain agreement earlier this week.
On Thursday, it said, the district court in the southern city of Bir as-Sabe' passed sentence.
The ‘Justice' Ministry claimed Oweida had pleaded guilty to "various offences against state security including membership of, and activity in, a forbidden organization".
The transcript said Oweida admitted that in 2015 he agreed to develop software "to hack into and monitor broadcasts of pictures from the skies of Gaza" by ‘Israeli' occupation drones.
The court said that he had been recruited by Islamic Jihad in 2011 and agreed that year to "write a computer program with which it would be possible to monitor traffic cameras in ‘Israel' for the purpose of Islamic Jihad ‘attacks'".
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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