Dafna Meir put up a fight, teen killer says

Transcripts emerge from the testimony of the teenage Palestinian who stabbed and killed Dafna Meir in her West Bank home in January.

In his interrogation, 16-year-old Morad Bader Abdullah Adais — who has been convicted of murder, and whose house has been demolished — describes how the mother of six put up a fight as he stabbed her repeatedly.

“I stabbed her in her upper body three, four times. The woman tried to struggle and tried to take the knife from me,” he says, according to the Walla news website. “Two children who were there were screaming, but the woman kept on struggling. I pushed her and overcame her. She lay on her back in the house. I tried to remove the knife from her body in order to keep stabbing her, but the knife was stuck in her body, so I ran away from Otniel the way I came.”

What would you have done if you had retrieved the knife? an investigator asks. “I would have continued stabbing her, and if I saw another Jew I would stab and murder him,” he replies. Adais says he didn’t stab the Meir children because “it’s forbidden by religion.”

Once he arrived home, “I didn’t tell my family or anyone else that I carried out the attack and I went to sleep. I didn’t leave the house until they arrested me,” he says.

The Palestinian teenager told investigators he was spurred to carry out the attack after watching a Palestinian television show in which a Palestinian girl is arrested after she refuses an order by Israeli soldiers to strip.

“I couldn’t handle this, more humiliation and shame for the Palestinians,” he says. “I decide to take revenge on behalf of the girls who are humiliated by soldiers and kill Jews with a knife. I took a knife with a 20 centimeter blade, used to cut meat, from the kitchen, and I decided to carry out the attack in the settlement of Otniel because it was the closest.”

What would you do if you freed right now? asks the investigator later on. “I would go the Al-Aqsa mosque, even if I was killed, and on the way I would kill as many Zionist Jews that I could,” says Adais.