The family of 20-year-old Ben Hassin, an Israeli-Canadian accused of murder and currently facing a death sentence in an enemy Arab country, have turned to ZAKA for urgent assistance in saving his life.

ZAKA, known for its activities to save those who can be saved, immediately offered assistance and support for the family in this difficult time.

Only now has the Israeli military censor allowed some of the details from Hassin’s story to be released for publication.

According to his father Ilan, as reported on Israel’s Channel Two on January 24, Hassin went to visit his grandparents still living in the unnamed enemy Arab state. It was while he was there that he decided to volunteer in the fight against ISIS. However, during a break in the fighting, he took a cab ride and, according to his father, the cab driver heard him speaking Hebrew, and threatened to kill him for being Jewish and Israeli. Hassin shot the cab driver, who died three days later of his wounds.

Hassin has been in prison since June 2015. On the Channel Two television report, Hassin’s father played a recording of a phone conversation he had with his son, in which Ben relates the torture he has had to endure in prison.

He faces a death sentence or life imprisonment – despite the attempts of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, working behind the scenes, to secure his release. The verdict is expected on Sunday, January 29.

However, if the Hassin family pay $120,000 before Sunday as compensation to the family of the murdered man, then – and only then – will the death sentence be lifted and Hassin will be able to return home.

Ilan Hassin told Channel 2 the payment would be made to the cab driver’s family in exchange for their forgiveness for the man’s death, a practice which he described as part of “the culture” in certain countries.

At the request of the family, ZAKA is providing the fund-raising platform for this urgent campaign.

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