The Jerusalem District Court will hold a hearing regarding Arafat Arfaaia, who is accused of raping and murdering the young woman Tekoa • In May, the district psychiatrist ruled that the terrorist was fit to stand trial
Four months after admitting the murder of 19-year-old Uri Ansbacher, the Jerusalem District Court will hold a hearing today (Tuesday) regarding Arafat Arfaaia, who is accused of raping and murdering the young woman Tekoa on a nationalist background.
Arafat Arfaaia confessed to the murder of Uri Ansbacher // Photo: Ami Shamir
Last May 7, the district psychiatrist dismissed the claim that Arfaia was mentally unfit to stand trial, and three months ago the court should have handed down its decision in the matter.
However, the district granted the terrorist's defense attorneys' request for an extension to submit a psychiatric opinion on their behalf on Arfaiya's condition.
Last December, Arfaiya refrained from confessing in court to the murder, even though his lawyer Riyad Suaed admitted to the acts attributed to him.
During the hearing, Advocate Suaed claimed that Arfaia wanted to confess, but when asked by the judge if he admitted to the acts - Arfaia did not respond to the question and asked to speak to his family on the phone. But as mentioned, in early June he confessed to the late Ansbacher murder during a phone call with His mother.
The murder of the late Ansbacher took place in the Ein Yael area of Jerusalem on February 7, when the young woman went out to be alone in the wild. Jerusalem through a breach in the separation fence near Beit Jala.
"I bought the dome two weeks before the murder," he said during his interrogation, "so that I can enter Israel without being suspected and not be recognized as staying illegally."
He further stated in the interrogation: "I left the house with the aim of murdering a Jew because of the occupation and because of the treatment of passers-by at checkpoints in the territories and in Jerusalem."
He encountered Ansbacher in the forest near Ein Yael.
"I saw a girl," Arfaeia said during the interrogation, "I told her in Arabic: 'Hello, I'm an Arab.' I saw that she did not understand what I said."
When he recounted the shocking murder, the terrorist said that he attacked the late Ansbacher and stabbed her three times with the knife he was holding. He said he dragged her to a distance of about 150 meters, while the young woman tried to resist and shouted.
Photo: Gil Kramer
Afterwards, Arfaeya stabbed the late Ansbacher several more times, just mouthed her with her scarf and handcuffed her with a belt. So he raped her, took her cell phone from her and fled the scene. As he walked away, the terrorist removed the memory card from the device. Ansbacher's cell phone and threw it under a rock. He then took a taxi to the Palestinian Authority and was eventually stopped by IDF forces.
The terrorist also said in his interrogation: "I made my parents very proud of what I did. I did not just rape and murder someone, but I murdered a Jew. I did everything an Arab dreams of. Murder is the best and most important thing I have done in my life. If she survived - it would mean I failed. "In what I planned and did not succeed in the task. It was the best feeling I ever felt in my life."