A teenage
girl stabbed along with five other people at a Jerusalem Gay Pride
parade by a suspect identified as an Ultra-Orthodox Jew has died,
according to a hospital statement.
Hadar Elboim
of the city’s Hadassah Medical Centre said the 16-year-old succumbed to
her wounds on Sunday and that her organs would be donated.
Shira Banki
had been in critical condition since being stabbed in the back during
Thursday’s march. The five other victims suffered various degrees of
injuries.
The suspect,
Yishai Shlissel, carried out the attack just weeks after being released
from a 10-year prison sentence for stabbing participants of the 2005
Gay Pride march in Jerusalem, wounding three people.
Police said
on Sunday they had formed a committee to examine the “background and
circumstances” that allowed the latest attack to take place.
Jerusalem’s
annual parade is smaller and more restrained than the annual gay pride
march in Tel Aviv, which was attended by about 100,000 revellers last
month.
Gays serve
openly in Israel’s military and parliament, and many popular artists and
entertainers are gay, but they still face hostility among religious
Jews.
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