The Israeli military indicts a Palestinian man who rammed his car into a group of IDF soldiers last month, killing two of them.
On March 16, Ala Qabha drove into four soldiers standing outside a military post near the Mevo Dotan settlement in the northern West Bank, killing Cpt. Ziv Daos and Sgt. Netanel Kahalani and seriously injuring two others.
Car-ramming suspect Ala Qabha (Courtesy)
Qabha was immediately captured. During questioning he initial claimed the car-ramming was an accident, but later admitted to interrogators that he had deliberately hit the soldiers, the Shin Bet security service said at the time.
Footage from the scene showed him going past the soldiers, making a U-turn and then accelerating into them.
Qabha is charged with two counts of “intentionally causing death” — the equivalent of murder under military law — and two counts of attempted “intentionally causing death.”
Sgt. Netanel Kahalani, left, and Cpt. Ziv Daos, right, are identified as the soldiers killed in a car-ramming terror attack on March 16, 2018. (Courtesy)
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