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An indictment will be filed tomorrow (Thursday) against Ahmed and Mahmoud Zidat who planned to assassinate the IDF spokesman in Arabic, Lt. Col. Avihai Adrei. The investigation revealed that Ahmed returned several times to the area of the restaurant in Ra'anana where the officer used to eat and looked for him armed with a knife, but did not find him. until he decided to abandon the idea and carry out the combined attack in the city. The officer was informed, was surprised by the details of the incident and confirmed to the police investigators that he was indeed in the restaurant on the date of the attack.
The two, cousins in their 20s, residents of the village of Bnei Naim near Hebron, carried out the combined attack in Ra'anana in the month last year, in which Edna Bluestein was murdered and 17 others were injured. The investigation conducted by the central unit of the Central District revealed that Ahmed had been planning to carry out the attack for a long time and had previously tried to purchase a weapon but was unable to finance it. At one point, he started working at a car wash in Ra'anana where he was employed After he presented a fake identity card of a resident of Rahat. His cousin, Mahmoud Zidat, joined him at a car wash without being required to show an identity card. About two weeks ago, an indictment was filed against the employer.
They went on the deadly attack after stealing two vehicles that had been washed at a car wash.
On his way, Ahmed spotted a man on the sidewalk and ran him over with the vehicle.
After the vehicle stalled, he got out of the vehicle and stole another one.
The woman who was driving the car fled for her life and he continued his killing spree.
After spotting 2 other passers-by, he hit them as well and even got down and continued to stab one of them while he was lying on the sidewalk.
He later ran about two kilometers to another car wash, where he hid until police investigators arrested them.
The second terrorist, Mahmoud Zidat, drove in a different direction to Ahuza Street, where he spotted a large group of people, including school students, standing at a bus stop.
He hit them quickly with the vehicle while accelerating and thus killed Edna Bluestein and injured many others, some of whom have not yet regained consciousness since the attack.
Mahmoud Zidat was caught thanks to Adrach who followed him.
That citizen complained to the police and reported it.
During their interrogation, the two terrorists said that they decided to carry out the attack following the war in Gaza and the damage they claim was done to the Al Aqsa Mosque.
The investigation materials did not reveal any connection between them and a terrorist organization, but rather that they acted as individual threats.
Ahmed said that a few months before the attack, he recognized the IDF spokesman in Arabic eating in a restaurant in the city of Ra'anana. He watched him and decided to equip himself with a knife in order to harm him in the future. He returned several times to Ashur HaBaada and looked for him while armed with a knife, but did not find him until he decided to abandon the idea and carry out the combined attack that did happen.
The IDF spokesman in Arabic was updated and was surprised by the details of the incident and confirmed to the police investigators that he was indeed at the restaurant on that date.
The detention of the two was extended from time to time and after a prosecutor's statement was submitted against them, tomorrow an indictment will be filed against them by the Central District Attorney's Office
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