Southern District prosecutors charged a 19-year-old Segev Shalom resident on Tuesday with dozens of terrorism-related speech offenses over 45 TikTok reposts that allegedly praised Hamas, glorified attackers and included one direct call to commit a terrorist act.
The prosecution has asked the Beersheba Magistrate’s Court to keep Deif Allah Abu Rjeila in custody until the end of his trial, arguing that the number and content of the posts show that his release would endanger the public.
The case concerns material Abu Rjeila allegedly shared online. The indictment charges him with 40 counts of incitement to terrorism, 23 counts of publicly identifying with a terrorist organization and one count of directly calling for a terrorist act. The counts overlap across the 45 posts, with some reposts forming the basis for more than one alleged offense.
According to the indictment, Abu Rjeila controlled a public TikTok account under the name “deef2lla,” which had 877 followers and 5,449 likes. Prosecutors allege that he reposted material from April 24 until his arrest on August 13, becoming particularly active on an almost daily basis during August.
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Much of the material was originally published by accounts identified with Hamas or dedicated to commemorating terrorist operatives, the indictment alleges. The reposts included footage from the October 7 massacre and material praising Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Ahmed Yassin, as well as members of other Palestinian armed groups.
One June 8 repost allegedly praised Hamas Nukhba terrorist Mu’in Muammar for killing 20 Israelis in 10 minutes on October 7. The video described the victims as “heads” and was accompanied by religious music and hashtags referring to October 7 and martyrdom, according to the indictment.
The direct-call charge concerns a separate video reposted on June 3. Prosecutors said it contained a sermon describing jihad and fighting as religious obligations and presenting them as the only means of “purifying” al-Aqsa Mosque.
Under the Terrorism Law provisions cited in the indictment, the prosecution must prove more than that the posts were offensive or supportive of violence. For the 40 incitement counts, it alleges that the content and circumstances created a real possibility that the publications would lead to terrorist acts.
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The detention request says the evidence includes records of the TikTok posts and material extracted from Abu Rjeila’s phone, including WhatsApp correspondence, gallery images and the accounts he followed. Prosecutors said he acknowledged during questioning that the phone and TikTok account were his and connected himself directly to some of the reposts.
The request also quotes him as allegedly telling investigators that he had not previously liked Hamas, but began to do so after watching videos posted following October 7. That statement appears in the prosecution’s detention application and has not been independently confirmed or tested in court.
Prosecutors argued that the volume of the material, the single alleged direct call for an attack and what they described as his intensive engagement with terrorist content establish a danger that cannot be addressed outside custody. They also argued that the continuing security situation increases the potential danger posed by alleged incitement.
Abu Rjeila was arrested on August 13 in a joint operation by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), Israel Police and Border Police counterterrorism officers.
