Jerusalem:Israeli prosecutors on Thursday charged a Jewish 16-year-old with manslaughter after he allegedly threw a stone at a car in the occupied West Bank and killed a Palestinian woman.
Prosecutors announced the indictment for the October incident in a statement, alleging the unnamed suspect threw the stone in an anti-Arab attack “as part of an act of terror”.
He was also charged with stone-throwing and intentional sabotage of a vehicle, both “under terrorist circumstances”.
Aisha Rabi, 48, died after the stone smashed through the windshield of the car she was travelling in with her husband and nine-year-old daughter in the West Bank on October 12.
The mother of nine was struck on the head and died later at a hospital in the city of Nablus. The stone weighed about two kilograms (4.4 pounds), according to prosecutors.
Her husband managed to continue driving and make it to a Palestinian clinic, prosecutors said.
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