2 indicted for aiding Palestinian terrorist who killed Yaniv brothers

Military prosecutors have filed an indictment against the sons of a Palestinian terrorist who killed Israeli brothers Hallel and Yagel Yaniv in the West Bank town of Huwara in February, charging them with helping plan the attack.

Khaled and Muhammed Kharousha, the sons of Hamas member Abdel Fattah Hussein Kharousha, were detained on March 7 during a raid in Nablus. At the same time, their father, who shot the Yaniv brothers dead, was killed in a raid in Jenin.

The Israel Defense Forces says the indictment against the Kharousha sons charges them with intentionally causing death — the military court’s equivalent of murder — and weapons offenses.

The pair helped their father in planning the attack, and carried out intelligence gathering, according to the indictment.

Initially, the sons were supposed to join their father in the attack itself, but in the days before the February 26 shooting, they agreed that the elder Kharousha would carry it out alone, the indictment adds.

The pair will be held until the end of legal proceedings.

The Yaniv family has been updated on the indictment, the IDF says.