Report: New Zealand mosque

shooter visited Israel

Brenton Tarrant, who gunned down 50
Muslims at two mosques in New Zealand,
reportedly visited Israel in 2016.

The gunman responsible for a pair of mass shootings at two New

Zealand mosques visited Israel two-and-a-half years ago, a new
report claims.

Twenty-eight-year-old Brenton Harrison Tarrant, an Australian

national, was arrested Friday, after he went on shooting sprees at two
mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 people and
wounding 50 more.

During the attacks Friday morning, Tarrant gunned down dozens at

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 the Al Noor Mosque, before attacking the Linwood Islamic Center,
using semi-automatic rifles and shotguns while live-streaming the
massacres to social media.

According to a report Sunday evening by Israel’s Channel 13, Tarrant

visited Israel two-and-a-half years before the massacres.

A senior Israeli official told Channel 13 that Tarrant entered Israel on

October 25th 2016 using his Australian passport, after arriving at Ben
Gurion Airport from Turkey.

He was reportedly cleared at Ben Gurion Airport to visit Israel with a

standard three-month tourist visa.

Tarrant stayed in Israel for nine days before leaving the country, the
official said.

On Saturday, Tarrant was brought to a Christchurch court where he

was charged with multiple counts of murder for the mass killings.

It was unclear, however, whether Tarrant would ultimately be

extradited to his home country of Australia, though New Zealand
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tarrant would be tried in New
Zealand – even if he was transferred to Australia at a later date.

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