{"id":30488,"date":"2019-01-25T01:23:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T01:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30488"},"modified":"2019-01-25T01:23:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T01:23:53","slug":"cairo-book-fair-gleaming-new-site-opens-far-from-historic-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30488","title":{"rendered":"Cairo book fair gleaming new site opens far from historic market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"95\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: Israeli Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 16-year-old Israeli with manslaughter after he allegedly threw a stone at a car in the occupied West Bank and killed a Palestinian woman.<\/p>\n<p>\nProsecutors announced the indictment for the October incident in a statement, alleging the unnamed suspect threw the stone in an anti-Arab attack \u201cas part of an act of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHe was also charged with stone-throwing and intentional sabotage of a vehicle, both \u201cunder terrorist circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAisha Rabi, 48, died after the stone smashed through the windshield of the car she was traveling in with her husband and nine-year-old daughter in the West Bank on Oct. 12.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mother of nine was struck on the head and died later at a hospital in the city of Nablus. The stone weighed about 2 kilograms, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>\nHer husband managed to continue driving and make it to a Palestinian clinic, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/userimages\/17\/untitled-6_copy_8.png\" width=\"263\">Israeli authorities arrested the suspect on Dec. 30. Four other suspects arrested as part of the investigation have been released to house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe five were students at the Pri Haaretz religious seminary in the Rechelim settlement in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsraeli media have reported that evidence against the teenager includes his DNA found on the stone.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe suspect\u2019s lawyers issued a statement after the indictment was announced saying he was innocent and alleging prosecutors were desperate to charge someone with the crime.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe know that our son is innocent,\u201d the statement quoted his father as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsraeli investigations into \u201cJewish terrorism\u201d \u2014 as such cases are often referred to by Israeli media \u2014 are highly sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsraeli authorities have been accused by rights activists of dragging their feet in such cases in comparison to investigations into Palestinian attacks, while far-right Israelis say suspects have undergone coercement and torture.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe most high-profile case in recent years was a 2015 firebombing of a home in the Palestinian village of Duma that killed an 18-month-old boy and his parents.<\/p>\n<p>\nAmiram Ben-Uliel, 21, from the northern West Bank settlement of Shilo, was charged with three counts of murder and one of attempted murder, arson and conspiracy to commit a hate crime in the case.<\/p>\n<p>\nA 17-year-old was charged with being an accessory to committing a racially motivated murder.<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, an Israeli court has since thrown out parts of the confessions of both the minor and Ben-Uliel, ruling they were obtained through physical coercion, dealing a setback to the case.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe minor in the case was given house arrest in July after the ruling on the confessions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: Israeli Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 16-year-old Israeli with manslaughter after he allegedly threw a stone at a car in the occupied West Bank and killed a Palestinian woman. 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