'Red Riding Hood' for a 19-year-old and the chilling messages: 'If I die, you'll know who murdered me'
"כיפה אדומה" לבת 19, וההודעות המצמררות: "אם אמות תדעו מי רצח אותי"
Summary
Asma Abu Ghanem, a 19-year-old woman, returned to the Israeli city of Ramla on a promise that 'people who missed her wanted to meet her,' but a planned ambush awaited and she was shot at point-blank range. Hours before, she had texted a friend fearing for her life: 'If I die, you'll know who murdered me.' The killing is part of a wave of deadly violence in Israel's Arab community, with a youth also murdered in Jaffa and others gravely wounded in Lod and Jisr az-Zarqa.
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