Three more of the \"Bat Ayin Five\" were indicted today in connection with an alleged plot to bomb an Arab girls\' school. They were charged with attempted murder and weapons violations. All residents of Bat Ayin, they are Yarden Morag, Shlomi Dvir, and Ofer Gamliel. Kach activist Noam Federman was charged yesterday with delivering explosives to the group, while Yosef Ben-Baruch will be charged later this week.
The charge sheets say that Yosef Ben-Baruch instructed the other three as to which site to use and how to detonate the explosives. Ettie Dvir, wife of one of the accused who was herself arrested for a few hours this past Thursday, said that any confessions extracted by the GSS are not believable:
\"After what I went through for just two hours - they handcuffed me to a chair, slapped me, took my baby away with force, let her cry outside for an hour and a half and said that I couldn\'t nurse her until I talked, etc. - I can imagine that if my husband went through three weeks of treatment that was probably much worse, they would be able to get him to admit to anything they want. They showed him pictures of the baby crying, and me tied to the chair and getting hit - so I won\'t be surprised at whatever he may have confessed to.\"
Yarden Morag\'s mother, however, is somewhat less skeptical: \"It\'s not likely that the GSS woke up one day and said, let\'s frame these guys. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.\"
The GSS released a statement via the Prime Minister\'s Office saying that Federman\'s involvement in the case proves that the government was justified in outlawing Kach, of which Federman is a member. The Kach party was declared a \"racist\" party and outlawed in the 1980\'s when polls showed that its lone MK, founder Meir Kahane, was gaining wide support.
The charge sheets say that Yosef Ben-Baruch instructed the other three as to which site to use and how to detonate the explosives. Ettie Dvir, wife of one of the accused who was herself arrested for a few hours this past Thursday, said that any confessions extracted by the GSS are not believable:
\"After what I went through for just two hours - they handcuffed me to a chair, slapped me, took my baby away with force, let her cry outside for an hour and a half and said that I couldn\'t nurse her until I talked, etc. - I can imagine that if my husband went through three weeks of treatment that was probably much worse, they would be able to get him to admit to anything they want. They showed him pictures of the baby crying, and me tied to the chair and getting hit - so I won\'t be surprised at whatever he may have confessed to.\"
Yarden Morag\'s mother, however, is somewhat less skeptical: \"It\'s not likely that the GSS woke up one day and said, let\'s frame these guys. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.\"
The GSS released a statement via the Prime Minister\'s Office saying that Federman\'s involvement in the case proves that the government was justified in outlawing Kach, of which Federman is a member. The Kach party was declared a \"racist\" party and outlawed in the 1980\'s when polls showed that its lone MK, founder Meir Kahane, was gaining wide support.