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Israeli judges on Thursday sentenced two Palestinians to life imprisonment for murdering their Jewish employer, the court said in an October attack described as terror.
Yousef Kamil and Mohammed Abu Elrob, both of Qabatiya in the West Bank, were convicted of killing Reuven Schmerling during a premeditated attack on their workplace in the Arab town of Kafr Qasem on October 4th.
A panel of three judges from the Lod District Court sentenced the couple to life imprisonment, and ordered everyone to pay Schmerling's widow 258,000 shekels ($ 70,719, 60,906 euros).
The two, who worked in the Schmerling warehouse, were convicted by the same court in plea bargaining. The death of the accused was an act of terror committed by each of the accused.
Schmerling, 70, who lived in the nearby Israeli settlement of Elkana in the West Bank, was stabbed and beaten to death by the two men in his coal warehouse, according to prosecutors.
They decided to "lead an attack for nationalistic reasons and cause the death of Jews," according to charges against both men
that Schmerling would be their victim to Because of "anger towards him arising out of their working relationship", one reads in the indictment.
After stabbing Schmerling and beating him to death with a fan and a pickaxe in his warehouse, Kamil and Abu Elrob
They were seeking revenge for the death of a friend in 2015, who had been shot while attempting an attack, said prosecutors
The Jewish site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, said the security agency [19659002] The attack prompted Israel to install new security measures at the entrance to the holy place, leading to deadly disturbances. Security measures were later withdrawn
Palestinians considered the new security measures as Israel's badertion of increased control over the site.
(AFP Staff)
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