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Palestinian terrorist sentenced to life in prison for 2021 murder of Yehuda Dimentman
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
An Israeli military court has sentenced a Palestinian terrorist to life in prison for killing an Israeli civilian in a shooting attack in the West Bank in December 2021.
On December 16, 2021, Muhammad Youssef Jaradat and another attacker — members of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad cell — opened fire on an Israeli car near the Homesh outpost, killing Yehuda Dimentman, 25, and wounding two others.
The pair then fled the scene with a third member of the Islamic Jihad cell to a getaway car, where a fourth accomplice — a minor — was waiting.
The three suspects, along with the minor who acted as a driver, were arrested three days later in the village of Silat al-Harithiya and have been in military custody since.
Jaradat was convicted of “intentionally causing death,” the equivalent of murder in the military legal system, as well as weapon trafficking offenses.
The Samaria Military Court today handed Jaradat a life sentence and ordered him to pay NIS 2 million ($640,000) to Dimentman’s family, as well as additional compensation to the wounded victims of the attack.
The IDF says that the trial of three other suspects in the case is ongoing at the court.
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