Israeli police arrest suspect in Jerusalem stabbing attack
Israel police and the Shin Bet internal security service have arrested a suspect in a knifing attack in Jerusalem, in which an Israeli youth was severely wounded two weeks ago, local media reported on Sunday following the lifting of a court-imposed gag order.
The man was named as Abdel al-Rahman Zaid, 20, a Palestinian student from the West Bank village of Beit Iksa.
On Oct. 22, he entered Ramot, a Jewish neighborhood in northwestern Jerusalem that borders the village, and stabbed Yehuda Ne'emad, 17, still hospitalized after incurring near fatal wounds. The suspect had also pursued a 12-year-old girl and her six-year-old brother who witnessed the attack before fleeing the scene.
"The suspect was arrested last Thursday after an investigation by police and Shin Bet," police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told Xinhua.
Rosenfeld said al-Rahman Zaid had confessed to carrying out the attack and recreated it, telling investigators that he had planned the attack in advance.
Ramot, Jerusalem's largest neighborhood, is located beyond the pre-1967 war lines. Generally considered a safe place, the community has seen several similar attacks in the past.
The latest incident came just four days after a landmark prisoner-swap between Israel and Islamic group Hamas in which 477 Palestinian security prisoners, many of whom were serving life terms for lethal attacks against civilians, were freed from Israeli jails in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who spent more than five years in captivity in the Gaza Strip. Another 550 prisoners are due to be released in December.
Right-of-centers Israeli lawmakers blamed the attack on the Shalit deal, saying it spurred Palestinian extremists to launch more attacks against Israelis.
Also Sunday, police announced that they arrested more suspects in "price tag" incidents, a term for vandalism attacks by right- wing Jewish settlers against Palestinian and Israeli Arab property.
Editor: Mu Xuequan
English.news.cn 2011-11-07 00:18:40 FeedbackPrintRSS
JERUSALEM, Nov. 6 (Xinhua)
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