An Arab Israeli man was indicted on espionage charges after allegedly compiling reports for a foreign agent detailing damage and casualties caused by Iranian missile attacks, the Israel Police said in a statement Friday.

According to the indictment, 47-year-old Miqdad Modar Husseni Natur, from the central city of Qalansawe, came into contact with the agent, who went by the pseudonym “Abu Ali,” while searching for work last summer. Natur had previously worked for several years as a sign-language interpreter for the Israel Police, the Shin Bet security service and the courts’ authority.

He reached out to Al Jazeera on Telegram in hopes of being employed by the Qatar-based network as an interpreter, despite it being banned in Israel, but was rejected. Israeli authorities have accused the network of serving as a propaganda outlet for Palestinian terrorists.

Someone from the news channel then referred Natur to Abu Ali, and the two began to correspond.

At the agent’s direction, Natur opened an Arabic-language Telegram channel called “Breaking News,” where he would publish news items handpicked by the agent for a monthly payment of $250. This continued from September 2025 to January 2026.

For reasons unknown to the prosecutors, Abu Ali broke off contact with the defendant in February but reached out to him again after the outbreak of the current war, this time asking him to compile reports on damage and casualties caused by Iranian missile impacts.

The agent also requested information on water, electricity and internet outages in Israel, the locations and damage caused by missile impacts, emigration numbers and the mood of the Israeli public.

Though the agent repeatedly asked Natur to physically go to missile impact sites to document their location and the resulting damage, the........

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