""At knifepoint in front of her crying children": This is how the brutal attacker from Gedera was arrested • Watch

February 5, 2023   

The woman who was attacked with terrible cruelty by a Bedouin burglar in her home in Gedera responded for the first time to the difficult incident this evening (Sunday). Business owners? Grow on it: You too deserve to grow to number one In a message she sent to her neighbors' WhatsApp group, the 30-year-old wrote: "I just got my phone back from the police. I just wanted to say thank you to each and every one of you, thank you very much from the bottom of my heart.".

In a message published on the Walla website, the woman wrote to her neighbors: "Thanks to you, this reached the media and you caught it. Thanks to you, I have the strength to deal with the case, you don't.".

The woman moved into the building only about a month ago, and after the incident she went to her parents. The Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court today extended by nine days the detention of the 22-year-old young man, a resident of the Bedouin diaspora, suspected of the brutal attack on the 30-year-old woman in Gedera on Friday night - claiming that there is "reasonable suspicion of high intensity based on the findings attributed to the suspect." In addition, it was decided to allow the suspect's identity to be published starting tomorrow at 12:00, unless his lawyers file an appeal against the judge's decision. Upon entering the courtroom, the suspect said: "It's not me." A police representative said at the hearing that the suspect broke into the house, "brutally attacked the woman in front of her children while they were crying, threatened her that he would kill her, and tied her legs, hands and eyes with a knife." The suspect's defense attorney, Avi Cohen, said that his client denies any connection to the break-in to the apartment and that he has no criminal record. The police representative replied: "Today, beyond reasonable suspicion, we already have prima facie evidence and a lot of actions to take. We reached the suspect using security cameras and forensic evidence. This case has damaged Gedera's sense of security." A relative of the woman's family told Esti Perez today in an interview on the program 'Halfway Through the Day' on Channel B about the family's difficulties, and reenacted the event. The relative spoke about the bravery of the victim's four-year-old son. "He opened his mother's hand with the knife, after the suspect tied her up." According to her, the child fought him and beat him with his toy sword. "He saw everything, said he saved his mother." In the meantime, the police are continuing an accelerated investigation of the attack, along with continuing to examine the findings that were sampled at and outside the scene. Recording devices seized by the Yamr detectives are being examined, in order to examine the suspect's movements in the city, before committing the serious offense. The Bedouin suspect was captured on Saturday after a 24-hour manhunt. In addition to him, six other suspects were arrested, all members of the same family, residents of the Bedouin diaspora who apparently work in Gedera. The police estimate that the suspect searched the area and broke into the apartment at 3:00 in the morning with the aim of attacking the woman. He then fled to Judea and Samaria and was arrested at a checkpoint when he returned. Watch the recording of his capture.