LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- The man arrested in Lafayette and accused of participating in a Hamas terrorist attack in Israel is going back to court tomorrow.

The preliminary hearing and detention hearing for Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi will take place at 1 p.m. Wednesday before Magistrate Judge Carol Whitehurst in federal district court in Lafayette.

Al-Muhtadi is accused of being part of the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which carried out one of a series of terrorist attacks on Israel Oct. 7, 2023 that killed over 1,200 people.

He is being held in the St. Martin Parish jail, where U.S. Marshals have been ordered to accomodate Al-Muhtadi's request for a Halal diet, daily prayers and fasting under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

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