Boy, 16, found stabbed in cemetery

Victim evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba

A view of the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, with the city of Beersheba in the background (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
A view of the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, with the city of Beersheba in the background (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

A 16-year-old boy was found Saturday in a cemetery in southern Israel with stab wounds all over his body.

The boy’s uncle discovered him in the cemetery of the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, or Shaqib al-Salam, which is in the Negev desert. The victim was evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.

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Segev Shalom is one of seven Bedouin townships in the Negev with approved plans and developed infrastructure. It was founded in 1979 as part of a government project to settle Bedouin in permanent communities.

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