Clashes between settlers and Palestinians in Hawara (Walla system!)
An indictment was filed today (Thursday) against residents of Jerusalem and Yitzhar in their 20s for committing terrorist acts against a Palestinian family in Hawara at the beginning of the month.
According to the indictment, the Palestinian family arrived in their car at the supermarket near Route 60 in Hawara, where they intended to do some shopping.
At this point, the defendants arrived in their vehicle, holding an ax, an emergency hammer, stones and pepper spray.
They got out of the car together with ten other people, some of them masked, and started throwing stones together at the Palestinian family's car and other vehicles that were there, as well as at the writer.
In response, the employees of the supermarket and those staying in the area ran into the business and barricaded themselves inside, after lowering the entrance bars.
The family, who did not have time to get out of the vehicle, remained seated in it.
The defendants began to smash the windows of the vehicles on the spot with the hammer and ax, and after smashing the windows of the family's vehicle, one of them continued to hit the passenger sitting in the driver's seat several times with the ax, who tried to escape, but was injured in his shoulder and hand.
He was also hit by stones thrown at his head.
The mother who noticed this bent down and protected the girl with her body.
The whole family was hurt by the pepper spray that the defendants sprayed at them after the car windows were smashed.
During the event, the respondents and the others shouted "Death to the Arabs".
As a result of the incident, the attackers suffered injuries and damage was caused to the family's car and two other vehicles.
The defendants remained silent in their investigations by the Shin Bet and the police, but information gathered during the investigation showed that the group had organized in advance for this event, as could be seen in the correspondence of one of them with his wife, to whom he wrote that he was leaving due to "
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