The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday extended the detention of three people accused of attacking a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa over the weekend, in what police described as a racist attack.

The three are suspected of pepper-spraying 30-year-old Hanan Abu Shehadeh while she was driving Saturday in Jaffa with her two children and mother-in-law. According to her account, the young men hurled racist epithets at her and spat on her young daughter through the open car windows.

The three suspects will remain in detention until Sunday, six days after their December 15 arrest. The decision is a partial fulfillment of the police request to extend their detention by eight days, out of concern that they might obstruct the investigation.

The Shin Bet internal security agency is also involved in the investigation, according to the Kan public broadcaster.

The court issued a gag order on details of the investigation and information that could identify the suspects.

However, at the hearing on Tuesday, according to Haaretz, a police representative described the three as “hilltop youth” — a term........

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