Yosef Hamo, 37, of Elon Moreh on the West Bank, was arrested last Friday on the orders of a Rehovot magistrate as the prime suspect in the murder last month of Aisha Al-Bakhsh, an 11-year-old Arab girl in Nablus.
The shooting occurred after Arab youths stoned a car belonging to Jewish settlers. An armed settler, chasing the youths, fired his machinegun into a bakery, killing the girl and wounding her nine-year-old sister.
In addition to Hamo, Pinhas Mahrabi, 30, was remanded in custody for six days as a suspected accessory after the fact. Police said that evidence necessary for indictments would be ready next week to present to the District Attorney.
A third suspect in the case, Ephraim Segal, 26, a recent immigrant from the U.S., was remanded for an additional nine days. Segal, who was the first suspect to be arrested, is believed by police to have driven the car in which the murderers escaped from the scene.
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