Israeli prosecutors filed charges on Sunday against two Palestinians suspected of murdering their Jewish employer this month in what authorities have labelled a “terror attack”, the justice ministry said.
According to the indictment, Yousef Kamil, 20, and Mohammed Abu Elrob, 19, both of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, murdered Reuven Schmerling in a premeditated attack at their workplace in the Arab Israeli city of Kafr Qassem on October 4.
Schmerling, a resident of the nearby Jewish settlement of Elkana, was stabbed and beaten to death by the two in his coal warehouse, prosecutors say. The suspects admitted during interrogations to planning a stabbing attack prior arriving illegally in Israel, and sought to avenge the death of a friend who was shot and killed during an attempted stabbing attack at the Jalameh checkpoint.
{Matzav.com}
