Israel Police and the Shin Bet on Sunday night arrested an Arab suspected of throwing a firebomb that seriously wounded a 12-year-old Arab in Yaffo last Friday.
The crime was originally thought to have been committed by Jews.
The police stated that the suspect, a local man in his 20s, fled from Yaffo shortly after he committed the crime amid Arab riots and attacks on Jews in the mixed Israeli-Arab city. He was arrested when he returned to the city on Sunday night. The suspect’s accomplice, who is not a resident of Yaffo, is still at large.
The boy sustained severe burns to his face and is now hospitalized at Sheba Hospital in Tel HaShomer. His 10-year-old sister was lightly injured in the incident.
“My children were right by the window,” the boy’s father said. “Suddenly, someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window and burned our living room. My son sustained severe burns to his face while his sister was only lightly injured.”
“After a 12-year-old child was burned in Yaffo from a Molotov cocktail, the Arab MKs published very harsh reactions, including in English, so that the world would know about it as well,” wrote Israeli-Arab social activist Yoseph Haddad.
“After the lowlife responsible for the crime was caught and it turns out that he’s an Arab who thought the home was a Jewish one, I haven’t yet seen or heard one word from an Arab MK. There’s a name for this — hypocrisy.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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I never understood this “There’s a name for this — hypocrisy.” This is not some private commentator, this is an official with responsibilities. His actions (and lack of actions) has many, many attributions – child endangerment, criminal malfeasance (and dereliction) of duty, suborning child murder, and so forth ad infinitum.