Palestinian arrested after body found at Israeli recycling site
Palestinian arrested after body found at Israeli recycling site
Majhad Dababsa denies any links to the dead body found in a Tel Aviv recycling site last week.
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The body was discovered in Israel's Hiriya recycling plant last week [Getty]
A 19-year-old Palestinian man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an Israeli, whose body was found at a recycling plant near Tel Aviv last week.
Hebron-based Majhad Dababsa, who works at the Hiriya recycling site, was arrested by Israeli police on Thursday after they apparently identified him as the potential killer using the victim's mobile phone.
The body of the deceased was found in a recycling container last week, reportedly covered in gunshot wounds.
The crane operator, who first found the body, told Ynet News: "I was called over because something was blocking the ramp. I looked into the ramp and I thought I saw clothes so I went into the container, I pulled at it and a man came out."
The victim was identified as in his thirties and a resident of central Israel, however no further details on his identity have been released.
Dababsa denies all charges. His lawyer stated that the 19-year-old found the mobile phone while sorting rubbish at the plant, and took it to put his own sim-card in the phone.
"If he had been tied to the murder he wouldn’t have done that," she pointed out.
Dababsa's remand has been extended for five days.
No further information on the case has been released.
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