A 14-year-old girl from East Jerusalem wrote a farewell letter to her family declaring her intention to die carrying out a terror attack, but was arrested shortly before she could carry out her plan, police said Tuesday.
Officers first became suspicious when on Monday evening they found a pile of papers close to a Jewish home in the Old City of Jerusalem, the Israel Police said in a statement.
One page in particular caught their attention, and a closer look revealed that the author intended to become "a martyr" and was saying farewell to her family, according to the statement. She also expressed support for the Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...terror group and signed her name.
Officers, together with Border Police, used surveillance footage to track down and arrest the teenager. She was found to be carrying photos of Paleostinian terrorists.
During her interrogation, the suspect told officers she intended to carry out a terror attack.
The investigation revealed that the suspect’s father was killed last year while carrying out an attack in the West Bank that injured several members of the security forces, police said. The statement did not specify exactly when the attack occurred or the father’s name.
A court on Tuesday extended the suspect’s remand until January 12 as the investigation continues.