Henkin killers given life sentences

22 June 2016, 7:23 pm

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Four Palestinians were handed life sentences for the killing of an Israeli couple driving in the West Bank with their children last year, the IDF says.

The military court in Samaria handed two life sentences and another 30 years to each of the four members of the Hamas cell that carried out the attack in which Eitam and Naama Henkin were murdered in front of their children,” a statement reads.

The Henkin couple were shot dead as they were traveling in their car near the West Bank settlement of Itamar on October 1, 2015. Their four small children – the oldest was nine years old – were in the backseat and witnessed their murder but were uninjured. Four days later the IDF arrested a five-man Hamas terror cell over the shooting.