Overview
- Police in Israel’s Central District, who detained seven minors Saturday, arrested an eighth suspect Sunday in the Petah Tikva killing under a court gag order.
- Investigators say a 15-year-old is the suspected stabber who was found in a hideout apartment, and his parents were detained on suspicion of helping him evade arrest.
- Judges have held detention-extension hearings, and two of the youths were released to 12 days of house arrest as police work to establish each suspect’s role.
- Footage aired in news reports shows parts of the assault, and witnesses say the clash began when teens sprayed party “snow spray,” an aerosol foam, inside the shop before ambushing the worker after his shift; he died Thursday at Beilinson Hospital.
- Residents report hours of disorder near the pizzeria with scant police presence, and a separate fatal stabbing in Be’er Sheva with two minors arrested has added to concern about rising youth violence.