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| Hamas cell commander given life sentence for 2019 slaying of student |
| 2022-06-01 |
| [IsraelTimes] Court also orders Ahmad Asafra to pay $450,000 to Dvir Sorek’s family; in February he was found guilty, though not present at the time of the attack An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced a Paleostinian man to life in prison for killing an Israeli teenager in 2019. Ahmad Asafra was handed an additional 25-year sentence and ordered to pay NIS 1.5 million ($450,000) to the family of Dvir Sorek. Sorek, 18, was stabbed to death near the West Bank settlement of Migdal Oz in August 2019. He was a yeshiva student enrolled in a program known as hesder that combines Torah study with military service. He was not in the military at the time of his killing. In February, Asafra was convicted of intentionally causing the death of Sorek, as well as a series of security offenses. The main charge is equivalent to murder in the West Bank military court. The court determined that Asafra was the commander of a Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, terror cell that carried out the stabbing attack. The court accepted the prosecution’s position that Asafra was guilty of the attack, although he was not present at the time of the stabbing. Another member of the cell, Yusef Zohar, was not present during the attack, but was convicted of a number of security offenses and was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years. In December, Qassem Asafra and Nasir Asafra were sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack. Qassem Asafra was handed an additional 40-year sentence, and Nasir Asafra an additional 20 years. The pair are cousins; it’s unclear how they are related to Ahmad Asafra. Qassem Asafra was also convicted of an attempt to kill two Israelis in a 2011 terror attack in Beersheba, for which he had not been caught at the time. Sorek’s body was found on a road leading to the religious seminary where he was studying. The attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but were apprehended in the town of Beit Kahlil after a 48-hour manhunt. The attackers told Sherlocks they killed Sorek due to "the suffering of the Paleostinian people" and "the situation at al-Aqsa [Mosque]," according to transcripts of their interrogation obtained by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. They planned the murder ahead of time, drove to an intersection and waited for an Israeli to attack, they said. Nasir Asafra attacked Sorek after he got off a bus, first attempting to subdue him with a stun gun, then repeatedly stabbing him in the chest, he said. "He tried to defend himself by covering his face and upper body with his hands. Then he remained still and didn’t move and I got into the car," the attacker told Sherlocks. Related: Ahmad Asafra: 2022-02-03 Commander of Hamas cell convicted in 2019 slaying of soldier-student Related: Dvir Sorek: 2022-03-23 Four Israelis killed in stabbing attack in Beersheba, terrorist shot dead Dvir Sorek: 2022-02-12 'Biden: ‘I'm Rejecting' Claims in Army Report We Weren't Prepared for Afghanistan Withdrawal, But I Wasn't Told We Were Prepared Dvir Sorek: 2022-02-03 Commander of Hamas cell convicted in 2019 slaying of soldier-student |
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