The body of a young woman was found Sunday night in Tel Hadid, in central Israel and police suspect it is that of Najilaa Alamuri, a 19-year-old Arab Israeli woman from Lod who went missing two weeks ago.
Some of Najilaa's relatives were put under arrest on suspicion of involvement in her killing.
The court imposed a gag order on the details of the investigation and the suspects.
The body found in Tel Hadid was taken to the Abu Kabir forensic institute for autopsy and conclusive identification. Immediately after the discovery of the body, police arrested five members of Najilaa's family, including a minor aged 15 and three women.
She had suffered from family violence and threats for years and had spent time in a shelter for battered women. She was seen there most recently earlier this month, around the time when a family member was released from prison, after serving time for attempting to lock her up.
That family member is one of the five arrested on Sunday night.
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The last chapter of Najilaa's relationship with her family began last September, when she left the home for about a month and said she wouldn't be returning. She was offered police protection.
In October she told the Lod police that her family wanted to harm her, but did not name the specific family members she feared. She also refused the police's suggestion that she enter a shelter for women under threat.
A family member learned that she was at the police station and went there to intercept her in order to take her home by force, and found her as she was leaving the station by the rear entrance.
Hearing her shouts, the police arrested him – a man with a long record of drug and violence offenses, who was also deemed dangerous to his family. A day after the incident, another family member was arrested on suspicions of abetting him.
Under questioning, the two said they just wanted to talk with Alamuri because they were worried that she would be "running around in the streets."
Around the time of the incident at the police station, one of the two met with Hajj Karim Jarushi, who helps the police resolve feuds in the Arab society, and gave him and the police a written undertaking that no harm would come to Alamuri. The undertaking has no force in law. (Last month, Diana Abu Qatifan was murdered after her relatives signed a similar document).
During the legal proceedings against the two, which lasted about two months, Alamuri told the police that she didn't want her relatives to sit in jail, as they were just looking out for her. Eventually, the two agreed to a plea bargain on charges of conspiring to commit a crime and attempted false imprisonment. One was sentenced to six months and was released earlier this year. The second was sentenced to community service which was converted into prison time. He was also released earlier this month.
The plea bargain had been reached because of the difficulty of proving the attempted abduction: The incident in question was short-lived and did not reach the stage of full execution, prosecutor Shirley Lugasi explained at the time. The plea bargain also spared Alamuri from having to testify against her relatives in court, which she did not want to do, Lugasi said.
After her disappearance two weeks ago, a number of women concerned for their own well being contacted the welfare services, sources in the Lod welfare services say. A classmate of Alamuri's texted Samah Salaime Ighbariyeh, a social worker and head of AWC (Arab Women in the Center): "I'm next in line," she wrote.
In Lod, almost every man has a gun, crime rules the streets and women's lives are in danger, which nobody cares about, says Ighbariyeh. "All the signals were there and the alerts were sounding at the authorities, but nobody lifted a finger."
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-arab-israeli-woman-who-went-missing-two-weeks-ago-found-dead-in-central-israel-1.7174782
2019-04-29 09:33:14Z
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