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Palestinian indicted over 2007 deadly shooting in the West Bank
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Military prosecutors have filed an indictment against a Palestinian accused of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the West Bank 17 years ago, after he was recently detained.
Ali Dandis, who was arrested in December, carried out the 2007 Nahal Telem shooting, in which two off-duty soldiers, Cpl. Ahikam Amihai and Staff Sgt. David Rubin, were killed while on a hike.
According to the indictment, Dandis planned the shooting attack with his friends Omar Taha and Basel al-Natsha.
On December 28, 2007, the trio arrived at Nahal Telem, a stream in the southern West Bank, in an attempt to locate and kill Israeli soldiers, the indictment says.
Dandis opened fire on Rubin, killing him, and moments later Taha opened fire on Amihai, killing him as well. Al-Natsha, the third assailant, was killed by the soldiers returning fire.
The two surviving gunmen turned themselves in to the Palestinian Authority security forces following the attack. In 2008, the PA sentenced them to 15 years in prison.
Dandis was detained on December 26, 2024, in Bethlehem by members of police’s elite Yamam unit.
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