Police arrest 3 suspects for attacking pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa over the weekend |
Police arrested three suspects Monday evening over an attack on a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa over the weekend, which inflamed tensions in the mixed Jewish-Arab section of Tel Aviv.
The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court issued a gag order on details of the probe, forbidding the publication of any information that could identify the three suspects.
Police initially arrested two alleged perpetrators, before nabbing a third suspect later Monday night. They were interrogated by officers from the Ayalon District’s crimefighting unit.
The three are suspected of pepper-spraying 30-year-old Hanan Abu Shehadeh while she was driving Saturday with her two children in Jaffa’s Ajami neighborhood.
The attackers shouted racist epithets and spat on her 7-year-old daughter, she told Arabic outlets.
Police said the incident occurred after an argument between Abu Shehadeh and the assailants, but she and her family have rejected the claim, insisting the attackers were motivated by anti-Arab sentiment.
On Sunday, police solicited the public’s help in searching for three young men suspected in the attack, sharing a still from security camera footage displaying their faces.........