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IDF indicts 2 Palestinians who allegedly helped plan deadly June attack near Eli settlement
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Military prosecutors file an indictment against two Palestinians, Bassel Shehadeh and Hamed Sabah, for allegedly aiding in the planning of the deadly terror attack near the West Bank settlement of Eli in June in which four Israelis were killed.
According to the indictment, the pair allegedly supplied the weapons to the Hamas gunmen who carried out the attack, and themselves planned an additional attack.
Shehadeh and Sabah are accused of practicing shooting several times over the course of several months, and being in contact with terror elements in the Gaza Strip in order to finance their activities and to improve the planning of the attack.
The pair allegedly supplied firearms and ammunition to Muhannad Faleh Shehadeh and Khaled Mustafa Sabah — the Hamas terrorists who carried out the Eli shooting — and coordinated the attack plans with them, the indictment says.
They were arrested by Israeli forces on June 21, before they managed to carry out an additional attack, the military says.
According to the charge sheet, Shehadeh and Sabah are indicted with four counts of intentionally causing death — the West Bank military court’s equivalent of murder — and several other security offenses.
They will be held until the end of legal proceedings.
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