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The manhunt for an Eritrean national wanted for the murder of a girl in Tel Aviv who shocked the country ended on Wednesday night when police arrested Tesfebarhan Tesfasion after a brief chase.
Tesfasion was on the run since the body of Sylvana Tsegai, 13, was found Monday at her home. He would have been his mother's ex-boyfriend.
A member of the public recognized Tesfasion for pictures published in the media and on social networks and alerted the police, the Hebrew media reported. When the police arrived at the Tel Aviv site, Tesfasion tried to escape but was quickly apprehended.
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The killing of Tsegai and Yara Ayoub, 16, whose body was found in her house in Galilee several hours earlier, again urged action to prevent violence against women.
An undated photo of Tesfebarhan Tesfasion, an Eritrean national, suspected of murdering his partner's teenage daughter on November 26, 2018. (Israeli Police)
In an interview with Hadashot, shortly before the announcement of the capture of Tesfasion, Malay Guawi, mother of Tsegai, described his suffering in the face of his daughter's death.
"I have a daughter and she is dead now," said Guawi, also an Eritrean asylum seeker, to Hadashot 's news channel during an interview Wednesday night. "I want my daughter to come back now,"
She described Tesfasion as "not a good person".
"I took him home and he ruined everything. I did not know that he would do that to my daughter.
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– חדשות (@kann_news) November 28, 2018
On Tuesday, Tesfasion's father told the media that his son was "crazy" and he did not care if the police killed him.
According to Hadashot, the Tesfasion entered Israel in 2010 via the Egyptian border and is known to the authorities for its previous offenses. He was sentenced to one year in prison for driving while intoxicated and driving license infringement.
He had also previously escaped from a detention center for African migrants and reportedly attempted to obtain an extension of his residence permit in the country by using a falsified marriage license. Tens of thousands of African migrants have entered Israel from Egypt in the past decade and many are now living in Tel Aviv.
Tsegai's body is at the Forensic Institute of Abu Kabir waiting for an autopsy before being sent back to Eritrea to be buried there, according to the chain.
The first results of the examination show that she was badually badaulted and then strangled to death, reported Channel 10 television news.
Police and medical staff in front of Sylvana Tsegai's home after she was found dead on November 26, 2018. (Flash90)
According to the information received, the social welfare authorities acknowledged that Tsegai had been the victim of domestic violence prior to the murder. She reportedly called the police on Saturday to complain about Tesfasion's presence at her home.
Earlier Wednesday, a group of women protested outside Tel Aviv's main police station to protest violence against women, which has claimed 23 lives since the beginning of the year.
The protesters, dressed in black, waved placards bearing the names of the women murdered this year, while others read "The blood of women is not worth anything".
Women Demonstrating Violence Against Women, Tel Aviv, November 28, 2018. (Luke Tress / Times of Israel)
Activists also held demonstrations Tuesday in various cities across the country against violence against women and against what they say is the powerlessness of the authorities to deal with the problem. Demonstrations took place in Beersheba and Jerusalem in front of the Knesset building as well as in Tel Aviv.
During the demonstration in Jerusalem, the women were motionless on the ground in a large pool of blood-colored liquid.
In another case, Ayoub, 16, was found Monday four days after disappearing from the Arab village of Jish. Police have arrested four suspects in connection with the case, much of which remains under the power of a wagering order.
People discover the grave of 16-year-old Yara Ayoub, whose body was found after being murdered, in the village cemetery of Jish, in the north of the country, on November 27, 2018. (Basel Awidat / Flash90)
The killings took place as Israel and the world celebrated the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Sunday. A few days after the coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shot down an opposition attempt to form a parliamentary inquiry commission on the scourge.
Netanyahu said he would form a ministerial commission instead, but legislators have asked that the bill be revised for another vote in light of the new murders.
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday told lawmakers who insisted the poll's vote that he was coordinating with the prime minister to implement solutions to end the violence in Knesset. for women, Hadashot said.
Zionist deputy Stav Shaffir in the Knesset, February 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel / Flash90)
Legislators have suggested that the committee be led by women members of the coalition and the opposition. Edelstein said he would think about this idea after consultations with the Prime Minister.
However, opposition MP Stav Shaffir (Zionist Union) rejected Edelstein's message, saying it was devoid of substance.
"This is another way of deceiving this case that has become a social terror," she said. "The hundreds of women murdered in the past decade and the 23 murdered this year are not enough for the government to wake up and not just make promises. The only thing left to do is to fully implement the government plan to combat this terrible phenomenon and to ensure that urgently needed budgets reach the people involved in the work. "
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