Ariel terrorist’s estranged mother calls on him to turn himself in

6 February 2018, 2:17 pm

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The terrorist who stabbed to death an Israeli father of four on Monday should turn himself in to security forces, his mother tells Israel’s Channel 10 television news.

Abed al-Karim Assi, 19, is suspected of stabbing to death Rabbi Itamar Ben-Gal, 29, at the Ariel Junction in the northern West Bank.

Assi holds Israeli citizenship and lives in Jaffa, defense officials said late Monday. He managed to evade capture following the attack, even after an IDF officer hit him with his car while in pursuit.

Assi’s father lives in Nablus and his mother in Haifa. She tells Channel 10 she “hasn’t seen my son in a long time.” She says his actions “are unacceptable.”

“What he did just ruined his life. He has no right to take a life,” she says.