Israel releases 12-year-old would-be stabber from jail
Source: Times of Israel
Citing young age, Prisons Service frees girl suspected of planning stabbing attack in West Bank settlement
Israel’s prison service on Monday said it has approved the early release of a 12-year-old Palestinian girl who confessed to planning to carry out a stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement.
Prison service spokesman Assaf Librati said Monday that authorities have decided to release the girl on April 24 — six weeks before her scheduled release. He said the decision was made because of her “young age.”
The case had put Israel’s military justice system in a difficult spot and drawn attention to the dual legal systems in the West Bank — one for Palestinians and one for Israelis.
The girl was arrested in February outside a West Bank settlement with a knife hidden in her shirt and later pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter under a plea bargain. She was sentenced to four and a half months in prison.
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