An Israeli military court has sentenced Hamas terrorist Ahmad Asafra to life in prison plus 25 years for the 2019 murder of Dvir Sorek. Asafra was also ordered to pay $450,000 to Sorek family.
Sorek, an 18-year-old yeshivah student, was stabbed to death near Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. He was in a program that combines Torah study with military service, but he was not a member of the military at the time of his death.
Asafra was convicted of the murder, as well as of a series of other security offenses, in February. The court also determined that Asafra was the commander of a Hamas terrorist cell, accepting the prosecution’s position that he was responsible for the killing even though he was not there when it was committed.
Yusef Zohar, another member of the cell, was also not present during the stabbing but was convicted of several security offenses and sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years. JNS
hell be exchanged with hundreds of others for a dead Israeli soldier.
He needs a needle in the arm , not a life sentence. He gets to live in the lap of luxury in an Israeli jail and gets freed in the next swap, what a deal!