Three Palestinians have been found guilty by a Tel Aviv court of carrying out a deadly terror attack in June 2016 in which four people were killed.
Shooters Khalid Muhamra and Muhammad Muhamra, along with Younis Ayash Musa Zayn, who is accused of helping the two, were found guilty of four counts of murder and 41 counts of attempted murder over the attack at the popular Sarona Market in central Tel Aviv.
Israeli security forces at the scene of a deadly shooting attack at the Sarona Market shopping center in Tel Aviv, June 8, 2016. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
The two shooters were captured alive immediately after the attack and Zayn, who drove them to a storage unit where they prepared the attack, was arrested shortly after.
Khalid Muhamra, left, Younis Ayash Musa Zayn, center, and Muhammad Muhamra, right, sit behind a glass window during their indictment in a Tel Aviv District Court on July 4, 2016. The three Palestinian men have been charged with murder in connection with the June 8 terror attack at the Sarona Market in central Tel Aviv in which four Israelis were killed. (Flash90)
According to a joint investigation by the Shin Bet, IDF and Border Police, the Muhamra cousins, from the West Bank town of Yatta, left their village just south of Hebron on June 8, 2016, and made their way to the Israeli town of Meitar through a wide gap in the security barrier.
The two were already armed, having purchased their weapons — Carl Gustav automatic firearms — in their hometown through an intermediary.
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