[IsraelTimes] Military prosecutors file indictments against three Paleostinian men accused of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in December in which an Israeli man, Yehuda Dimentman, was killed outside the illegal Homesh outpost in the northern West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces says.
The three men — Muhammad Youssef Jaradat, Mahmoud Ghaleb Jaradat, and Ghaith Ahmed Yassin Jaradat — are each charged with "intentionally causing death," the equivalent of murder in the military legal system, though only two of them were suspected of carrying out the deadly shooting itself. Their indictments come a week after a Paleostinian teenager was charged with driving the getaway car that was used in the attack.
The mother of the minor and one of the adult suspects are also due to be charged with failing to prevent the attack and with assisting them afterward, as her teenage son had told her about the plans in advance and she helped hide the weapons that they used after the attack, the military says. A number of other Paleostinians are also being charged for failing to prevent the attack and for their involvement in selling the guns used in the attack.
According to the indictment, the three men who carried out the attack planned the shooting in advance, picking the targets (Israeli settlers) and the location (Homesh) and planning their escape route. They also planned to steal the body of one of their victims, the IDF says.
On December 16, the three suspects arrived at the road outside of the Homesh outpost, where settlers illegally operate a yeshiva, or religious school, and waited several hours for a car to leave the area. When one finally did, two of them took positions alongside the road armed with guns, while the third ran back to the escape car. As the car carrying Dimentman and two other students at the illegal yeshiva passed by, they started shooting, each of them firing 20 bullets before a jam made their guns stop working, and they then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace in the escape car. Dimentman sustained fatal wounds and the two other passengers were lightly maimed.
The three suspects, along with the minor who acted as a driver, were arrested a few days later and have been in military custody since.
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