Neighbors insist: Bedouin teen not a terrorist
Hura residents say guard at entrance to Border Guard base mistook Basma Awad al-Nabari for a terrorist. Teacher: She never addressed any security-related issues, even during Gaza offensive
While police have declared Saturday's foiled attack on Border Guard officers stationed at the Shoket Junction in south Israel an act of terror, neighbors of Basma Awad al-Nabari claim that the Bedouin teen was mistakenly shot to death after arriving at the base to file a complaint.
According to several residents of the village of Hura, the guard at the entrance to the Border Guard base mistook the teen for a terrorist and misled the officers who arrived at the scene and shot her dead.
"The rest of the details that were published by the police are mere embellishments," a relative of the teenager told Ynet on Sunday.
One of Al-Nabari's teachers at the Amal Yitzhak Rabin High School said she was an "outstanding student who had never addressed any security-related topics, not even during Operation Cast Lead (in Gaza)."
During a search of the Al-Nabari family home in Hura, police found the teen's diary, in which she had written that she wants to be a "shahida" (martyr) because of what the Palestinians experienced during the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
"It's raining enemy missiles," she wrote, "And I can hear the screams of Gaza echo in my ears. I have a profound wish to die for Palestine; I have a profound wish to die for Gaza."
Other entries include her expressing her wish to "hurt police officers and the enemy," and according the officer Didi's testimony, documents indicating the family's affiliation with Hamas were also found in the house.
From the diary (Photo: Herzl Yosef)
Another relative, Amar al-Nabari, said the diary "does not indicate a desire to carry out a terror attack. "This is merely poetry that she had downloaded from the Internet; she did not write it."
Police said a search of the uncle's room inside the family home resulted in three bullets and that incitement literature was found all around the house and mostly in the girl's room.
The uncle and parents were arrested on Saturday, and according to the police suspicions "have a clear connection to the incident."
Earlier Sunday, the Beersheba Magistrate's Court remanded the girl's father, Ibrahim, and uncle, Awad, for four days, and her mother, Najah for 24 hours.
Investigators believe the teen did not act alone. "She did not have a terrorist inclination, and we try to determine how she ended up in such a situation," one detective said.
