Beduin 20-year-old beaten unconscious after taking Jewish girl home.
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Three people were arrested by Israel Police on Sunday morning in connection with the brutal attack on Friday night that left 20-year-old Beduin soldier Cpl. Jalal Tawili fighting for his life in a Haifa hospital.
The three, a 17-year-old Kiryat Motzkin resident, an 18-year-old resident of Kiryat Yam and a resident of Kiryat Haim, 26, reportedly attacked Tawili after he and his brother Hamoudi, accompanied a Jewish girl with whom the two had socialized, back to her Kiryat Yam house.
On the way back, the two brothers, residents of the Western Galilee village of Tamra, were attacked by local Jewish youths, apparently because they disapproved with the fact that the two were acquaintances of the girl. Tawili was struck in the head by a concrete block thrown from close range.
Hamoudi Tawili said that the attackers "hit him in the head with a block - a big piece of rock. He lay on the ground, and even then, they continued to beat him and curse him."
"They hit him with an iron chain, they hit me too. Only when we laid there as if we were dead they left. They thought we were dead," he said. "People who would do this aren't human."
Tawili was still hospitalized at Haifa's Rambam Medical Center in serious but stable condition on Sunday morning, after undergoing brain surgery on Saturday.
"My brother serves in the IDF to protect Israelis, and then people do this to him when he's on leave," said Hamoudi Tawili on Sunday morning.
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