The Palestinian terrorist who killed an Israeli man in a 2014 drive-by shooting in the West Bank is sentenced to two life sentences.
Ziad Awad, a convicted Hamas terrorist released in the 2011 Shalit deal, was arrested three years ago for the April 2014 shooting of Baruch Mizrahi near Hebron.
Undated habdout file picture released by the Israel Police of Baruch Mizrahi, 47, an inteligence service police high ranking officer, killed on April 14, 2014 near the West Bank city of Hebron (photo credit: AFP/HO/Israel Police)
Mizrahi, a senior police officer, was killed while driving to Hebron to celebrate Passover with his wife’s family. His pregnant wife, Hadas, was moderately injured in the attack.
A West Bank military court rules Monday that Awad will serve two life sentences, as well as the 16 years of his prison term that remained when he was freed in the 2011 prisoner exchange.
Awad, who spent 12 years in an Israeli prison for the murder of Palestinian collaborators with Israel, was released in 2011 as part of the prisoner swap for Shalit before completing his term. Over 1,000 Palestinian security prisoners were freed to secure the release of Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas in a 2006 raid into southern Israel; Shalit was held hostage in Gaza for five years.
The court also rules that Awad will pay NIS 250,000 ($70,000) in damages.
Ziad Awad (L) and his son Izz Eddin (R) at Ofer Military court on June 23, 2014. The two were arrested on May 7 for the April 14 shooting of Baruch Mizrahi (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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