Military court sentences last member of Palestinian cell in deadly 2015 shooting

A military court hands down a life sentence to a member of a Palestinian terrorist cell that carried out a deadly shooting attack in 2015 that killed 25-year-old Malachy Rosenfeld.

Faiz Hamed was convicted of intentional cause of death — the military legal system’s equivalent to murder — and attempted intentional cause of death.

He is sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay damages to Rosenfeld’s family.

Hamed and two other men carried out the attack, opening fire at a car in which Rosenfeld and three others were riding in the central West Bank. Rosenfeld was killed and his three friends were injured.

The cell had also carried out a number of other shooting attacks, including one against an Israeli ambulance.

Hamed is the final member of the cell to be sentenced.

— Judah Ari Gross