Israeli security agency arrests two women for planning ISIS attacks

Israel's Security Agency, the Shin Bet, revealed on Monday that it arrested two female citizens accused of collaborating with ISIS, the Jerusalem Post reported.

According to a statement released by the agency, the two 19-year-old Israeli citizens, who live in the Beduin village of Lakia, are accused of planning a terror attack against Israeli Jews inside Israel's borders.

The investigation revealed that Rahma and Tasnin al-Assad published articles praising the Islamic State group as well as content inciting terror attacks against Jews and Israelis. The two are suspected of being in contact with ISIS handlers abroad and made plans to leave the country and join the Sunni terror group's affiliate in the Egyptian Sinai.

An indictment was filed against them on Monday by the Southern District Attorney's Office in the Beersheba District Court.

According to the charge sheet Tasnin made contact with an ISIS operative going under the name "Sheikh Kassem," through the messaging app Telegram, and expressed willingness to aid in a terror attack.

Kassem, reportedly instructed her to carry out surveillance of several possible targets in the southern city of Beersheba, including Ben Gurion University and the central bus station. After staking out both the locations, the two determined that security at the university was too strict to allow them to bring in a bomb in a suitcase and that there were too many Muslims who might get hurt in an explosion at the bus station.