"The straw that broke the camel's back": Gedera residents demand a solution to their personal insecurity - voila! news

Documenting the break into the fence (Channel 13)

While the head of the Gedera Council Yoel Gamliel and the Central District Police are arguing among themselves and shifting responsibility for the issue of the lack of personal security in the city, the residents of the council have been dealing for a long time with the lawlessness and incompetence on the part of the authorities, who do not provide them with the required security response.

The horrifying incident of robbery and rape of the council resident is "the straw that broke the camel's back", said last night (Saturday) city resident Oren Hadad in a conversation with Walla!

"As a driving instructor here in the city, I hear all the time from boys and girls that they pass by a building that was built and the workers there throw words at them and harass them," says Hadad.

"Why do they have to ignore? Why do I have to tell my daughter who is going to a friend in the new neighborhood, not to return home alone and to wait for me to pick her up, why?".

"We are going to unite here."

Residents at the scene of the rape in Gadara, February 4, 2023 (photo: Walla! system, Hadar Cohen)

Hadad added: "What is happening here is happening all over the country, but what is the solution, that we continue to be silent? And now it has exploded in our faces. There will not be a situation where some worker will throw out a word and it will pass quietly. We are going to unite here together, that they will understand that it is not worth messing with us No one tells them not to work and not to earn a living."

The residents of Gedera are not the only ones suffering from the situation.

The shortage of manpower in the police resulted in the fact that today, almost every peripheral station attached to a region and district in the police, is short of police officers and investigators.

Therefore, the chance of citizens in these areas encountering a patrol car on the streets tends to almost zero.

Without a choice, more and more localities and neighborhoods throughout the country, whose residents are able to finance private security services through security companies, are doing so.

Haddad, who initiated a meeting of residents this evening following the difficult incident, talks about the plight of residents in the council: "When my wife and I came to Gedera as a young couple, 7,000 residents lived here. Since then, Gedera has developed at a tremendous pace, in construction and education, but even after 35,000 residents, what has not developed is personal security. It can't be that there isn't a police station here, and there is a lot of construction here and a lot of workers. On the other hand, there are many, many break-ins, many car thefts. So they built an MDA station and a fire department here, but to complain to the police you have to go to Rehovot or Livna.

There is municipal policing here, but it is not enough."

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At the end of a hunt: a 22-year-old Bedouin was arrested on suspicion of raping a 30-year-old woman in a fence in front of her children

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"Not his prisoner".

Itamar Ben Gabir at the scene of the rape, February 4, 2023 (photo: Walla! system, Hadar Cohen)

Referring to the statement of the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gabir who came to the council yesterday and received harsh criticism from the residents, Hadad says that "Our message is to the council, the police and the Minister of Defense, and I am the one who voted for him, and I still have his sign on my house.

I am not his prisoner, and if he thinks that the sentence that every politician throws out - what you see from there you don't see from here - will work on me, he is wrong.

If he doesn't start moving things around, he will lose my vote and everyone I made him support, and he won't be in the Knesset if he isn't able to fulfill his promises."

A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of raping the woman. The suspect fled to the territories of the Palestinian Authority, where he was arrested Yesterday, and at the same time six other men were arrested, members of one family from the Bedouin diaspora who work in the fence.

According to the suspicion, at 3:00 in the morning between Thursday and Friday, the suspect broke into the apartment and a short time later tied the woman in her room and raped her, when at the time of the act her three children were at home - less than six years old.

The hunt lasted a little over a day.

Forensic findings were collected from the scene, and from the night hours close to the incident, police forces searched the area in an attempt to locate the suspect - who was caught today.

A police source said that the possibility that the suspect broke into the apartment in the first place with the aim of raping the woman, and not to steal property, is being investigated.

"He looked surprised when he was arrested," the source said.

"We realized that a number of figures from the diaspora were involved in this," said the source, referring to the widespread arrest.

According to him, tomorrow he will be brought to court to discuss the extension of his detention together with other detainees, who allegedly helped him escape to the PA's territory.

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