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| Palestinian man gets life plus 32 years in prison for role in deadly 2016 attack |
| 2022-12-23 |
| [IsraelTimes] Bilal Abu Zeid convicted of supplying weapon and driving West Bank forces of Evil who killed Border Police officer Hadar Cohen at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem An Israeli military court on Sunday sentenced a Paleostinian man to life in prison plus an additional 32 years over his involvement in a 2016 shooting attack in Jerusalem that killed a border policewoman. Bilal Abu Zeid was convicted of supplying a gun and driving three Paleostinian men from the West Bank into Israel, where they killed Cpl. Hadar Cohen, 19. He was also ordered to pay NIS 1.5 million ($430,000) to Cohen’s family, and an additional NIS 250,000 ($72,000) to another policewoman maimed in the attack. The Paleostinian attackers who carried out the February 3, 2016, attack were armed with rifles, knives and two pipe bombs. They were killed by police at the scene. Cohen, the border guard, died hours after being shot in the head and stabbed in the neck while guarding Damascus Gate at Jerusalem’s Old City. She had been drafted into the Border Police only two months earlier, and was still in training at the time of the attack. During his testimony, Abu Zeid confessed to aiding the attackers but said he had declined to join them in carrying out the attack. "I refused and told them that I wanted to stay alive and kill Jews," he was quoted by military prosecutors as saying. He had been convicted of intentionally causing the death of Cohen, as well as a series of security offenses. The main charge is equivalent to murder in the West Bank military court. The court accepted the prosecution’s position that Abu Zeid was guilty of the attack due to his involvement in the planning and execution, even though he was not present at the time of the shooting. Following the attack, the Israel Defense Forces demolished Abu Zeid’s and the other three attackers’ homes in the West Bank. Cohen was part of a three-member squad that spotted the three Paleostinians behaving suspiciously and asked to see their identification papers. As one attacker withdrew his ID card, the others opened fire and pulled out knives to attack the officers. According to police, Cohen managed to return fire before she was mortally maimed, despite being surprised by the attackers. |
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