Jerusalem terrorist’s daughter arrested after praising father

Israeli security forces arrest the teenage daughter of the East Jerusalem man who killed two Israelis in a shooting spree.

Eiman, 14, daughter of the 39-year-old gunman, of Silwan, was held and questioned with her mother for more than an hour on Monday morning, before the teen was detained, the Palestinian Ma’an news agency reports.

The arrest comes after a video of the teen praising her father went viral on Facebook.

“We deem my father as martyr,” she said in the video, according to Maan. “We hope he will plead for us before God on judgment day… I am proud of what my father did.”

“We’re very happy and proud of our father,” she also said. “My father is a great man. Our relationship, as father and daughter, was excellent.”

JTA

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