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| ‘A case that shocks the soul’: Esther Horgen’s murderer sentenced to life in prison |
| 2022-04-04 |
| [IsraelTimes] Muhammad Mruh Kabha killed the mother of six in a gruesome terror attack in December 2020, reportedly as vengeance for the death of a security prisoner Muhammad Mruh Kabha ...also spelt Mohammad Maroh Kabaha... was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Samaria Military Court on Sunday for murdering Esther Horgen, an Israeli from the Tal Menashe settlement in the northern West Bank.Handing down its decision, the court said, "This is a case that shocks the soul" and called Kabha’s actions an "inconceivable evil." On December 20, 2020, Horgen, 52, a mother of six, went for a hike in the Reihan forest, near her home in Tal Menashe. Kabha, who had been waiting in the area for a potential victim to pass by, chased her and knocked her to the ground. Horgen tried to fight him off but he pinned her down and then repeatedly hit her over the head with large rocks, causing her to bleed and breaking bones in her arms and chest, until she stopped moving, according to the indictment against him. "Hearing once again the detailed description of this horrific crime brings us back to very difficult moments and underscores the importance of the court really using all the power given to it by the legislature to take part in the war on terror," Esther’s widower, Benjamin Horgen, said, according to Ynet. In October, Kabha was convicted of "intentionally causing death," equivalent in military law to murder, as well as an additional charge of conspiracy to shoot at a person. In addition to life imprisonment, Kabha was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered by the court to pay monetary compensation of NIS 3 million ($940 million). Whoops! As I type, 1 New Israeli Shekel equals US$0.31, so that’s $935,778. The reporter misplaced the decimal Kabha, 40, from Tura al-Gharbiya near Jenin, was suspected by the Shin Bet security agency of carrying out the terror attack as a form of vengeance for the death of a security prisoner, Kamel Abu Waer, who died of cancer six weeks before the murder.The Horgen family’s attorney, Maurice Hirsch, criticized the policy of the Paleostinian Authority to pay stipends to the families of Paleostinian security prisoners through the Paleostinian Authority Martyrs Fund, known derisively as "pay for slay." "During the life of this vile killer in prison, he will earn over NIS 4 million from the Paleostinian Authority. He will enjoy it, his family will enjoy these funds, the Paleostinian Authority will rebuild his destroyed house," he said. "And the Israeli government is doing nothing. The court has gone a long way this morning, even with the compensation ruling, but it is not enough." Last February, the IDF demolished Kabha’s home in the village of Tura al-Gharbiya. Horgen’s murder sparked several days of tension in the West Bank. The Israeli security services reported 13 incidents of stone-throwing by settlers against Paleostinians in the days immediately following the killing. |
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