Prosecutors filed charges on Thursday against a high school student accused of fatally stabbing his classmate last month in Kafr Qara, an Arab city in central Israel.

The teen was indicted on charges of murder with reckless indifference and possession of a knife for an illicit purpose after he stabbed Muhammad Marazqa during a fight between the two on school grounds.

The defendant started attending the school the month of the stabbing, prosecutors noted. He regularly carried a pocketknife with him to class.

Prosecutors say that the defendant had no prior acquaintance with his victim, and that the fight broke out on October 27 after the suspect made an offensive remark to the victim. During the fight, he stabbed the victim twice in the chest, and the victim........

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