2 Arabs Held on Suspicion of Spying
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JERUSALEM — Israel has arrested two Israeli Arab women on suspicion of spying for Syria and Egypt, Israeli news reports said Wednesday.
Elham Salah, a 32-year-old resident of the Golan Heights, was arrested earlier this week at her parents’ home in Majdal Shams. The arrest set off three days of protests by her fellow Druze Arabs, who pelted Israeli troops with rocks and firebombs.
Officials confirmed that Salah was suspected of passing sensitive security information about Israel to Syria while studying psychology at Damascus University in the Syrian capital.
In a separate incident, Israeli television and radio reported Wednesday that Nadia Fouda, a 45-year-old Arab originally from the northern Israeli city of Acre, was being held by Israeli security forces on suspicion of spying for Egypt in the early 1990s.
Fouda has not been charged, and her family denied that she had been a spy. She has lived in Egypt for 12 years and was arrested four months ago when she returned for a funeral.
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