An Israeli military court convicts a Palestinian of killing an Israeli teenager in 2019.
Ahmad Asafra has been convicted of intentionally causing the death of Dvir Sorek. The charge is equivalent to murder in the West Bank military court.
Asafra was also convicted of two other charges of attempting to cause intentional death and a series of security offenses, the Israel Defense Forces says in a statement. He has not been sentenced yet.
Dvir Sorek, 18, a yeshiva student and off-duty IDF soldier who was found stabbed to death outside a West Bank settlement, on August 8, 2019. (Courtesy)
The court determined that Asafra was the commander of a Hamas 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 during 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.
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