"She thinks maybe she should have fought him harder, shouted louder":
A few days after the horrific rape that occurred a week and a half ago in the fence, Victim A went to a personal therapist.
Her childhood best friend, R., drove her.
"On the way, I heard all the details of the story for the first time," recalls the company.
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"She spoke dryly, as if she was not part of the attack. A noticed my compassionate looks and apologized. She said 'I have no soul, I have no feelings. My soul is unable to contain what I went through. Everything in me is sealed.' She has some kind of disconnection in her thinking. It's probably part of a suppression mechanism."
H, a member of the rape victim's family, also knows the disconnections that R. speaks of.
"One of the days she ignored a message I sent her," tears come to his eyes.
"Then she said she stared at the message for ten minutes and didn't know what to answer. She is the most orderly and efficient person there is, raising three children along with hard work, and suddenly A is not completely with her feet on the ground. She feels empty inside."
The suspect in the brutal rape, Barkhat Abu-Esa (22), a Bedouin from Tel Sheva, was arrested a day after the rape.
Although the central unit of the Central District Police found his DNA on the victim's body and although his character was clearly visible from the videos of the security cameras, he denies the suspicions against him and refuses to cooperate with the investigation.
Abu Esa, the rape suspect in the fence in the background of the scene, photo: Avi Moalem, the use is made in accordance with section 27a of the copyright law
Yesterday, three members of her family and one of her close friends gathered, and told about A's torment, about two of the small children who saw the suspect and had to witness their mother being attacked, about the strength of the family's fracture and A's immediate need for financial assistance to enable her and her children to receive mental health treatments.
Policemen in Gadara (archive), photo: Liron Moldovan
"He probably marked her in advance," says her family member T.
"On Thursday at noon, about 12 hours before the rape, A came back from shopping and noticed someone staring at her. She lowered her head and hurried home. She assumed it was a suspect. We heard that one of the managers at the site where he worked as a construction worker testified to the police that he saw him watching her and commented In our eyes, this is not a purely criminal incident. A. did not just undergo an assault and rape, but a nationalist attack. He did not have to kill her physically with the knife, he murdered her soul."
H: "It is possible that one of his bosses warned him or was angry with him and he felt humiliated, and was looking for a way to take revenge on the Jews. It is possible that you targeted her because she is beautiful, but it is still a decision to rape a Jewish woman."
The WhatsApp message of the rape victim in Gedra, photo: no
R.: "If the sexual urge overcame him, why did he drive at night from Tel Sheva to Gedera? Couldn't he have looked for a victim closer? The state cannot ignore this aspect."
D sheds light on her family member's mental state: "A keeps asking if she could have reacted differently. Maybe she should have fought him harder, screamed louder, kicked the floor to wake up the neighbors. She is tormented that the phone wasn't on her, that she might have been She has to run to the bedroom, where all the children were, and lock the door. Since then she has not been able to wear a hoodie because the attacker was dressed like that. This is why it is very important that she starts mental health treatments and rehabilitation quickly, but the cost is very high and the waiting list at the health insurance fund is six months . We have to help her. She always helped us."
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The full story will be published in the "Shishab" supplement on Friday.
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