Ofer Gamliel, serving 15 yrs for bomb plot, escorted to hospital in handcuffs; PM vows to fight terror.
By JPOST.COM STAFF
The IDF was still hunting Friday for the ax-wielding terrorist who infiltrated the Bat Ayin settlement earlier in the day - killing Shlomo Nativ, 13, and fracturing the skull of Yair Gamliel, seven.
Meanwhile, Yair's father, Ofer Gamliel, serving a 15-year jail sentence for a failed bomb plot against an Arab girls school in east Jerusalem, was let out of prison Friday in order to visit him.
Yair was recovering in Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem's Ein Kerem. His condition had improved since Thursday and it was upgraded to light.
On Thursday, Ofer refused to leave the Ayalon Prison since the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) rejected his request to be let out in civilian clothes and without a guard. However, on Friday, Gamliel accepted the IPS conditions and was escorted to the hospital hand-cuffed and in prison garb.
Thursday's attack came less than 48 hours after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took office with a right-wing government that has promised to take a harsher stance against Palestinian violence, and on Friday, Netanyahu telephoned Shlomo's parents, Ravital and Haim Nativ, to express his condolences for the loss of their son.
Netanyahu vowed to the bereaved parents that Israel would fight terror with all its might.
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