Prosecutors to indict Palestinian for nationalistic attack in Tel Aviv car crash

Police and medics at the scene of a suspected car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022 (Magen David Adom)
Police and medics at the scene of a suspected car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022 (Magen David Adom)

State prosecutors say they plan to indict a Palestinian man who ran over a motorcyclist in Tel Aviv with his car early this month, after an investigation found he had done so on purpose as a nationalistic attack.

Police and the Shin Bet security agency say Ali Hamad, 31, who was in Israel illegally, confessed to the attack, saying he had done so as revenge after his cousin, who was involved in terrorist activity, was killed in exchanges of fire with Israeli troops in the West Bank.

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