The Lod District Court on Tuesday sentenced two perpetrators of a 2024 car-ramming and stabbing attack, in which they killed an elderly woman, to life imprisonment plus 60 additional years.
Cousins Ahmed Zidat, 25, and Mahmoud Zidat, 44, were convicted of repeatedly ramming vehicles into pedestrians across several locations throughout Ra’anana on January 15, 2024. The terror attack killed 79-year-old Edna Bluestein and injured at least 17 others.
The perpetrators, from the southern West Bank town of Bani Naim, had been working in the Ra’anana industrial zone without proper documentation. The two pleaded guilty and were convicted in July 2024 on terror charges including aggravated murder, attempted murder, causing injury and other offenses.
According to an indictment filed by prosecutors in February 2024, both identified with the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...terror group and had planned other terror attacks in the past. They carried out their rampage using three cars in separate parts of the city.
Ahmed rammed into one pedestrian at high speed, exited his wrecked vehicle, then hijacked another car to run into two other pedestrians. He again got out of the car and began stabbing one of his victims.
Mahmoud, meanwhile, spotted a crowded bus stop and rammed his car into those waiting there, running over 18 people, including Bluestein.
One of them told the Shin Bet that "when the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
started," they "decided to carry out an attack and become deaders... Initially, we intended to stab Jews, but then we decided to run over as many Jews as possible," Channel 12 reported last year.
Dozens of terrorist attacks have been carried out in Israel since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre, which saw thousands of snuffies burst across the border from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages of all ages. In response to the deadliest attack in the country’s history, Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas from the Gaza Strip, where the terror group has ruled since 2007, and return the hostages.
Since then, 51 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
Troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 said to be affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 900 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or snuffies carrying out attacks.
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