“Anti-Arab” Israeli teen charged with killing Palestinian woman

JERUSALEM, JAN 24 — An Israeli teenager was charged on Thursday with killing a 47-year-old Palestinian woman in October, in an act driven by “racism and hate” against Arab people.
The Central District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment of manslaughter against the 16-year-old boy from the Rahelim settlement in the northern West Bank.
The teenager, identified only by Tz, was also charged with “hurling a stone toward a vehicle under aggravated circumstances and circumstances of a terrorist act and deliberate sabotage of a vehicle in the circumstances of a terrorist act,” according to a copy of the indictment obtained by Xinhua.
The District Attorney’s Office asked the court to remand him in custody until the end of his trial.
According to the indictment, the suspect carried out the murder on Oct. 12, 2018, with “a two-kg rock in his hand, with the aim of harming passengers of Arab origin, out of an ideological motivation of racism and hostility toward Arabs,” the indictment read.
Ya’qub Rabi, husband of the killed, told the Hebrew-language Walla news site that he hopes the Israeli teen “will get what he deserves.”
The number of attacks carried out by Jewish ultra-nationalist settlers against Palestinians and their properties was on the rise in 2018.
By mid-December 2018, 482 such incidents had been reported to Israeli authorities, compared to 140 in 2017, according to a report by Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper.
Israel occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war and has since controlled the area despite international criticism. – XINHUA