A Palestinian police officer who was convicted of participating in the violent lynching of 2 Israeli soldiers in Ramallah 17 years ago, is released from prison after a retrial in a West Bank military court.
Hatam Faiz Khalil Magari was convicted in 2004 for his participation in the brutal murders of IDF reservists Yossi Avrahami and Vadim Nurzhitz, at the start of the Second Intifada in October 2000.
His conviction was based on the eyewitness testimony of one man, Bassam Hassin a-Luah, who also incriminated seven others in the lynching, two of whom confessed.
The 2000 lynching of two IDF reservists in Ramallah (Screen capture, Channel 2 News)
Magari appealed the conviction on the grounds that the other people Luah claimed were involved in Avrahami Nurzhitz’s killings were never tried.
He also said that information provided by Israeli interrogators was not included as evidence in his original trial, and could have changed the verdict.
Magari will be deported to the Gaza Strip.
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