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Arabs kidnap, rape young woman
20-year-old Carmiel woman dragged into car, driven to Safed area where assailants rape her repeatedly; victim undergoes several operations in hospital following attack
Carmiel Police are asking the public’s help Wednesday in the investigation of a rape that occurred last week.
The incident began last Monday at 11 p.m., when a 20-year-old Carmiel resident was walking along one of the city’s streets when a vehicle containing three unidentified Arab men pulled up in front of her. The three then stepped out of the car and dragged the woman inside; they proceeded to drive apparently to the Safed area where two of the men raped her for a number of hours while the third kept watch.
The Arab men then drove her back to the spot they had kidnapped her from.
Carmiel Investigations Unit Chief Roee Waldman said the woman later made her way to a Nahariya hospital, where she underwent several operations.
Police intervened immediately after the woman arrived at the hospital, but there are no suspects in the case as of yet.
According to the victim’s testimony, she was apparently driven by the Arab men in a white BMW; however, she was unable to help police with composite portraits of the assailants or offer any information that would lead to an arrest.
Police are now asking residents to come forward with any information that may advance the investigation.
