Palestinians handed life sentences for deadly 2007, 2021 West Bank terror attacks |
An Israeli military court on Thursday sentenced two Palestinians to life in prison for separate terror attacks they carried out in the West Bank in 2007 and 2021.
The first attacker, Ali Dandis, who was arrested in December 2024, carried out a shooting at the Nahal Telem stream in the West Bank in December 2007, in which two off-duty soldiers — Staff Sgt. David Rubin and Cpl. Ahikam Amihai — were killed.
Dandis was handed two life sentences for the 2007 attack and ordered to pay NIS 5.2 million ($1.6 million) in compensation to the families of the soldiers.
The Samaria Military Court also gave Dandis an additional life sentence for a separate shooting attack targeting a bus in the West Bank in 2012, which caused no injuries, at a time when he had temporarily left the custody of the Palestinian Authority.
According to an indictment filed last year, Dandis planned the Nahal Telem shooting attack with his friends Omar Taha and Basel al-Natsha.
On December 28, 2007, the trio arrived at Nahal Telem, a stream in the........