An Arab-Israeli teen faced threats of violence from family members after he posted a pro-Israel video online and called for the immediate release of three kidnapped Israeli teens who were abducted by Hamas terrorists.
Mohammad Zoabi, a 17-year-old Arab-Israeli resident of Nazareth, had the threats leveled against him by three family members after he posted a video affirming "his own identity as an Israeli" and urging "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop negotiating with Palestinian terrorists," according to the Times of Israel.
TOI further reports that other Arab Israelis have distanced themselves from Zoabi’s pro-Israel rhetoric:
Another relative, the controversial MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad), distanced herself from his comments Tuesday and said that, contrary to his assertion, the kidnappers were "not terrorists."
"Three members of a Nazareth family were arrested on suspicion of threatening to harm a son from the family, 17, after he showed solidarity for the three kidnapped youths in a movie uploaded to a social network," the police said in a statement.
The three who were arrested range in age from 40 to 60, and the youth’s mother was also called in for questioning, the Ynet news site reported. Due to the nature of the threats against him, police and the Ministry of Education decided to place a security detail on Zoabi and around his high school, Army Radio reported.