Hindawi , allegedly trained by Al Qadeda in the Durante camp in 1998, was recruited while he was living in Lebanon. At the time of his arrest in Feb 2000 , his father was the chief of police in Palestinian police in Hebron. While trying to recruit members for his cell, Ukal was detained in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on June 1 ,2000. Investigations uncovered that he had gone for "religious training" in Pakistan in 1997 but recruited by an Al Qaeda associate group there and trained in Afghanistan. Uka’s Al Qaeda agent handler asked him to set up a support infrastructure via recruitment including Israeli Arabs. Upon his return to the Gaza Strip Al Qadea handlers in Jordan and Britain kept in touch with him by email. Ukal was also met by the spiritual leader of Hamas Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Ukal was indicted by a military court at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip and charged with planning " a large scale attack in the center of the country, recruiting suicide bombers and planning attacks on Israeli Defence Force Soldiers".
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