[IsraelTimes] Judges say Ahmed Kunba was part of cell that murdered 35-year-old Raziel Shevach in West Bank
An Israeli military court on Thursday convicted a member of a Paleostinian terror cell that carried out a deadly shooting attack in the West Bank in January 2018.
Ahmed Kunba, a resident of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, was part of the group that opened fire and killed 35-year-old Raziel Shevach near the outpost of Havat Gilad. The attack was carried out along with other members of the cell and its leader, Ahmad Nassar Jarrar.
| Mr. Jarrar receives a monthly pension from the PA of 1,400 shekels ($390), so Mr. Kunba can expect a henchmen’s portion. |
Kunba was convicted of intentionally causing the death of Shevach. The charge is equivalent to murder in the West Bank military court.
He was additionally convicted of a number of other security-related offenses, as well as plotting and carrying out a number of other attacks along with Jarrar, who was killed by Israeli troops less than a month after the attack.
Over the course of a number of weeks, Jarrar, Kunba, and other accomplices scoped out areas where they aimed to carry out an attack, and waited for Israeli civilians to arrive, according to the indictment.
On January 9, 2018, the group of button men opened fire and killed Shevach, a father of six, on a highway near the then-illegal outpost of Havat Gilad. The turbans expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, and Israeli security forces launched a manhunt for them over the following weeks.
Around a week after the attack, Israeli forces killed Ahmad Ismail Muhammad Jarrar, one of the alleged members of the cell, and detained Kunba along with another suspect. The alleged leader of the cell, Ahmad Nassar Jarrar, was killed several weeks later.
Kunba’s first sentencing hearing was set for August 1. 
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