The prosecution filed indictments today (Thursday) with the Central District Court.Seven people were indicted for the aggravated murder of Yigal Yehoshua, 56, from Lod.
Yosef Kadaim, 21, Walid Kadaim, 25, Karim Bahloul, 18, Iyad Marhala, 20, Khaled Hassuna, 51, Ahmed Danon, 25, and Kamel Allah, 21, were additionally charged with a joint terrorist act, a joint terrorist act of throwing a stone at a vehicle, a racially motivated intentional sabotage of a vehicle, a joint obstruction of justice, and illegal residence in Israel - each according to their part.
This was after stones thrown at Yehoshua the 14th's car caused his death.
About a month ago, during the disturbances in the mixed cities, including Lod, there were numerous incidents of violence by Arabs on nationalist and racist grounds, including through bodily harm and property damage, riots, setting vehicles on fire, including police cars, throwing Molotov cocktails, setting off fireworks, burning tires and trash cans, blocking roads, and throwing stones and objects at security forces.
On May 10, 2021, the late Musa Hassona, a relative of Khaled Hassona, was shot. The next day in the afternoon, his funeral was held in the city in the presence of thousands of participants.
According to the indictment, following the funeral of Musa Hasuna and the tensions that prevailed in the city of Lod, in the evening hours, a number of Arab youths whose identities are unknown set fire to the sides of the road in order to cause vehicles to slow down. When vehicles arrived in the area of the fire and slowed down, the youths carried out actions to check the identities of the passengers in the vehicle. When the youths recognized that it was a vehicle with Jewish passengers, they informed the defendants and others of this, in order to have them throw stones at it.
The defendants, together with Muhammad Hasuna, joined together with the aim of throwing stones at Jewish vehicles with the aim of damaging the vehicles and their occupants, and out of indifference to the possibility of causing their death - all from a nationalist-ideological motive and with the aim of instilling fear and panic in the public and when the act involved a real risk of serious bodily harm to a person.
To this end, the defendants equipped themselves with stones and threw stones at several vehicles passing by after they were identified as vehicles carrying Jewish passengers.
At approximately 10:30 PM, the defendants threw several stones at Yigal Yehoshua's vehicle from a short distance. Several stones hit the vehicle. A stone or stones admitted by the defendants shattered the left rear window of the vehicle, and another stone hit the left front window, shattering it, penetrating it, and hitting the deceased's head with great force.
After the defendants realized that they had harmed the deceased and his vehicle, some of the defendants discussed among themselves the need to hide the cameras in order to hide their actions and disrupt the investigation.
After stopping for several minutes, with his remaining strength, the deceased continued driving at a slow speed until he reached the parking lot of his home, where he lost consciousness and never regained it. Several days later, the deceased was declared brain dead, and after his family donated his organs, he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
After the deceased left the scene of the incident, the defendants continued to throw stones at cars in which Jews were traveling, causing damage to those vehicles.
In addition, the indictment indicates that two days after the incident, Kadaim and others threw stones at cars in which Jews were traveling.
In the request for detention until the end of the proceedings, Attorneys Atzmon and Shetrit stated: "The indictment filed against the respondents attributes to them serious offenses for which the motive is nationalist-ideological and was done with the aim of instilling fear and panic in the public and when the act involved a real risk of serious bodily harm to a person. The respondents joined together to throw stones at a vehicle, after they had ascertained that there were Jews in the vehicle. The respondents threw stones together at the vehicle of the late Yigal Yehoshua, only because he was Jewish, and caused his death as a result of a severe stone hit to the head.""
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