A Palestinian admitted killing a Franco-Israeli woman near a West Bank settlement in December on charges of nationalists
, the Shin Beth, the Israeli internal security service, said on Monday.
Authorities israeli announced on December 24 the arrest of a Palestinian suspected of murder brutal a few days earlier from Esther Horgen, 52 years old.
The body of the mother of six was found with beatings in a forest near the small Israeli settlement of Tal Menashé, in the northern occupied West Bank.
She immigrated from France to Israel in the 1980s
Mohammed Cabha, 40, from the village of Tura al-Gharbiya near Jenin (north), admitted to murdering Esther Horgen on nationalist grounds and gave details of the murder
Shin Beth said in a statement.
The suspect had planned a month and a half earlier to carry out an anti-Israel attack, after having been influenced in particular by the death, in an Israeli prison, of a Palestinian suffering from cancer.
He put his plan into action on December 20 when he saw a Jewish woman walking alone in the forest, according to the Shin Beth. Four people who helped him hide after the attack were also arrested, the Shin Beth said.
The suspect will be brought to justice in a military court after the end of the investigation
, according to this source. Esther Horgen, born Brigitte Attelan, immigrated to Israel from France in the 1980s. Psychologist and coach, she had lived with her family in the Tal Menashé colony for 20 years.
“A heinous crime”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that Israel settle accounts
with his murderer.
The murder was also condemned by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs having denounced a heinous crime
.
The West Bank is a Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 by the Israeli army.
More than 450,000 Israelis reside in settlements – deemed illegal by international law – in the West Bank, where 2.8 million Palestinians live.
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