Aysha Ravi, the alleged Palestinian suspect in Jewish terror case. (photo credit: Courtesy)
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Some of the Jewish minors arrested and questioned by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) over the last week are suspects in the murder Palestinian woman Aysha Ravi, who was pelted with stones while driving her car near the Tapuah Barrier in the West Bank and killed on October 12, the agency said Sunday.
Ravi was driving her car with her husband beside her and was injured when the stones struck her head. She was taken to the hospital, where she later died.
At the time, Palestinians testified that Jewish rock throwers had been involved in the incident, but no one had been caught to date.
The Shin Bet said that the five Jewish minors who have been arrested to date, three last Sunday and two more in recent days, are also suspected of other Jewish terror offenses.
A statement from the agency said that the minors are students at Pri Haaretz Yeshiva in Riheilim, which is near where the incident occurred.
It also said that on the day after the incident, a Saturday, the suspects drove (despite identifying as Shabbat-observant Jews who are prohibited from driving on the Sabbath) from Yitzhar to Riheilim to prepare themselves for interrogation by the Shin Bet.
The Shin Bet refused to identify which of the five were suspected in which crimes.
Three have been detained by the Shin Bet since last Sunday and were allowed to speak to their lawyers for the first time on Saturday.
“Since the arrests, the Shin Bet has identified a continuous and active effort from interested parties to slander the organization and its agents and to delegitimize its activities,” said the Shin Bet.
“This attempt should be condemned and should not be aided. Nothing should be done to weaken the Shin Bet from continuing its efforts to thwart terror in any form – Jewish or Palestinian,” the agency’s statement continued. “All the organization’s efforts are based on the state’s values and are for the sake of national security.”
A lawyers for some of the suspects, Itamar Ben Gvir, responded to the Shin Bet statement saying that the agency had not succeeded in forcing the minors to confess. He said they had stuck to their right to remain silent,adding there was no evidence against them and that they had been traumatized by the interrogation. He did not mention enhanced interrogation, which was used on the July 2015 Jewish defendants in the Duma murder case, currently undergoing trial.
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