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| Two Palestinian teens indicted in firebomb attack |
| 2015-01-26 |
| [IsraelTimes] The military prosecution has submitted an indictment against two Palestinian teens in connection with a December firebombing attack that left 11-year-old Ayala Shapira critically wounded. Thursday’s indictment named two Kfar Azzun residents — the teenaged Muhammad Beduan, whose exact age was not disclosed, and a 16-year-old — and alleged that the pair prepared a Molotov cocktail and threw it at Shapira’s car on December 25 as her father, Avner, drove on Route 55 between the Ma’ale Shomron settlement and the illegal outpost of El Matan, where the family lives, Israeli media reported Sunday. Ayala’s father, Avner, was lightly injured in the attack. Her parents said the Molotov cocktail smashed through the car window while they were on their way home after picking up their daughter from an extra-curricular math class. The two suspects confessed to the attack when they were arrested days later after a joint IDF-Shin Bet investigation. The two teens also threw a firebomb that struck the car of Ruth Shapira, Ayala’s mother, a month earlier. Shapira suffered third-degree burns over much of her body and face in the attack and was initially described as being in critical condition. Her condition has steadily improved, and last Sunday she was transferred to the children’s ward at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. |
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