Man stabbed for not giving cigarettes
Four stabbing cases across country: Man knifed on Tel Aviv beach for not giving two youths cigarettes; youth stabs another in Nazareth; man wounds relative in brawl in Holon, and a Lod resident hurt in another fight
TEL AVIV - A 22-year-old from the Arab regional council of Ararara was stabbed during a fight that broke out Saturday along Jerusalem Beach, in Tel Aviv. The attacker was arrested.
The victim later died in hospital.
Police and an ambulance were called to the scene after getting a report of a fight along the beach.
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The man, who suffered a stab wound to the chest, was treated on the scene by an emergency medical team and then taken to Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital.
Yarkon district police questioned eyewitnesses, who said that two people asked him for cigarettes. When the victim refused, they attacked him.
The police have arrested one suspect.
In Nazareth, a 16-year-old was stabbed by another teen. Friends who took the youth to Haifa's Rambam Medical Center identified the attacker to police, who arrested the suspect.
The suspect had a knife on his person.
Family feud
Earlier, Ayalon district police arrested a 25-year-old from Ofakim on suspicion that he had stabbed a relative in Holon. The fight brought out in the victim's apartment.
Yiftah district police arrested a Lod resident who stabbed another Lod youth on Herzl Street in Tel Aviv. The victim was taken to Ichilov while the stabber, himself lightly wounded, was picked up by police at another hospital.
Friday night, four youths were wounded in a brawl at club in Rehovot.
Before dawn, Kfir Devorah, 22, was murdered in Bat Yam after partying with a 17-year-old girl. The girl's brother was outraged by the episode and a fight broke out. Four suspect's, including the girl's mother and brother, were arrested for the killing.
-Eli Senyor and Sharon Roffe-Ofir contributed to this article
פורסם לראשונה 02/07/2005 18:53
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