Israel yesterday charged two Arab Israeli schoolgirls with the attempted murder of a security guard last week, saying they expected to die in the attempt and become martyrs for Islam.
A police statement quoted the charge sheet as saying that the two girls were both aged 14, from the mixed Arab-Jewish town of Ramle, and had been influenced by a wave of Palestinian violence since October.
“On February 3, 2016, after a stabbing attack in which three terrorists were shot dead at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate and because of the wave of terror, the accused agreed to meet the next day, equipped with kitchen knives, to carry out a nationalist stabbing attack,” it said.
“They conspired to become ‘martyrs’ and die in the war for religion.”
On February 4, “one of the accused suggested to the other that they go to school first and carry out the stabbing attack in the afternoon,” it added.
“Nevertheless the other accused persuaded her that they should mount the attack in the morning instead of going to school.”
