Prosecutors Say Man Attacked Florida Solar Energy Facility, Businesses Over Israel Support

The Jordanian citizen is accused of causing an estimated $700,000 in damage, along with threatening to use explosives.
Prosecutors Say Man Attacked Florida Solar Energy Facility, Businesses Over Israel Support
Some of the solar panels with cracked glass that the U.S. Department of Justice said were attacked by Jordanian citizen Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen. Image courtsey of the U.S. Department of Justice
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A Jordanian citizen residing in Orlando, Florida, has been charged with multiple counts of threatening to use explosives and the destruction of a solar energy facility as part of a series of anti-Israel attacks, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Aug. 15.

“We allege that the defendant threatened to carry out hate-fueled mass violence in our country, motivated in part by a desire to target businesses for their perceived support of Israel,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.

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