Military court convicts accomplice of Palestinian terrorist in 2018 shooting

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Rabbi Raziel Shevach, who was murdered in a terror attack in the West Bank on January 9, 2018. (courtesy)
Rabbi Raziel Shevach, who was murdered in a terror attack in the West Bank on January 9, 2018. (courtesy)

An Israeli military court has convicted an accomplice of a Palestinian terrorist who carried out a deadly shooting attack in the West Bank in January 2018.

Ahmed Kunba, a resident of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, opened fire and killed Raziel Shevach near the settlement of Havat Gilad, along with the main suspect, Ahmad Nassar Jarrar.

Kunba is convicted of intentionally causing the death of Shevach. The charge is equivalent to murder in the West Bank military court.

He is additionally convicted of a number of other security-related offenses, as well as plotting and carrying out a number of attacks along with Jarrar, who was killed by Israeli troops a month after the attack.

Kunba’s sentencing trial will begin on August 1.

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