Netanyahu praises court's rejection of shortened sentence for terror accomplice

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises a court’s rejection of the early release of an accomplice to a deadly terror attack in June 2017 outside Jerusalem’s Old City.

“This is the correct decision. Murderers and their accomplices need to be punished severely and to serve their sentences in full,” he says in a statement.

In the attack, Border Police officer Hadas Malka was critically injured after being stabbed in the chest by one of the three attackers. She later died of her injuries at the hospital.

The Palestinian assailants, who entered Israel illegally from the West Bank, were all killed in the attack.