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2022-02-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Commander of Hamas cell convicted in 2019 slaying of soldier-student
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[IsraelTimes] Court rules Ahmad Asafra guilty in stabbing death of Dvir Sorek outside of West Bank yeshiva, even though he was not present at the time of the attack
An Israeli military court on Monday convicted a Paleostinian of killing an Israeli teenager in 2019.
Ahmad Asafra was convicted of intentionally causing the death of Dvir Sorek. The charge is equivalent to murder in the West Bank military court.
Asafra was also convicted of two other charges of attempting to cause intentional death and a series of security offenses, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. He has not been sentenced yet.
The court determined that Asafra was the commander of a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror cell that carried out the stabbing attack. The court accepted the prosecution’s position that Asafra was guilty of the attack, although he was not present during the stabbing.
Another member of the cell, Yusef Zohar, was not present during the attack, but was convicted of a number of security offenses and was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years.
In December, Qassem Asafra and Nasir Asafra were sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack. The pair are cousins; it’s unclear how they are related to Ahmad Asafra.
Qassem Asafra was also convicted of an attempt to kill two Israelis in a 2011 terror attack in Beersheba, which he had not been caught for at the time.
Sorek, 18, was stabbed to death near the West Bank settlement of Migdal Oz in August 2019. He was a yeshiva student enrolled in a program known as hesder that combines Torah study with military service. He was off-duty at the time of his killing.
Sorek’s body was found on a road leading to the religious seminary where he was studying.
The attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but were apprehended in the town of Beit Kahlil after a 48-hour manhunt.
The attackers told Sherlocks they killed Sorek due to "the suffering of the Paleostinian people" and "the situation at al-Aqsa [Mosque]," according to transcripts of their interrogation obtained by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
They planned the murder ahead of time, drove to an intersection and waited for an Israeli to attack, they said.
Nasir Asafra attacked Sorek after he got off a bus, first attempting to subdue him with a stun gun, then repeatedly stabbing him in the chest, he said.
"He tried to defend himself by covering his face and upper body with his hands. Then he remained still and didn’t move and I got into the car," the attacker told Sherlocks. 
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