Jerusalem – An Israeli military court on Wednesday handed life sentences to four Palestinians who gunned down an Israeli couple in front of their children in the West Bank last year.
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The military said four members of the Islamic militant group Hamas shot dead Eitam and Naama Henkin as they drove through the West Bank last October. Their four children, including a four-month-old infant, were in the car but were physically unharmed. Eitam was an American citizen.
Over the past nine months, Palestinians have carried out dozens of attacks, including stabbings, shootings and car ramming assaults, killing 32 Israelis and two visiting Americans. About 200 Palestinians have been killed during that time. Israel has identified most of them as attackers while the rest died in clashes with Israeli troops.
The violence has led to calls for the revival of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which last broke down in 2014.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome next week, Netanyahu’s office said, without providing further details. Israeli media have reported that the two will discuss efforts to restart peace talks.
France has proposed an international peace conference, an initiative rejected by Netanyahu, who says a deal can only be reached by direct negotiations between the two sides. The Palestinians have welcomed the French initiative.
The Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.N., U.S., EU and Russia — are finalizing a report on the conflict expected to be critical of Israel.
Terrible miscarriage of justice. Israel must institute the death penalty for terrorists. This misguided stance on the death penalty causes more deaths. Later these same terrorists will be released when more hostages are taken. Perhaps if the tourism to Israel dries up when people protest this, the leadership will change their minds.
We all know they will be out in a few years at the next so called prisoner exchange where we give them 1000 murderers for 1 dead soldier or a drug dealer…
why not the death penalty for the monster?!
What a punishment. He will be taken care of for the rest of his life and receive excellent medical care.
they will be exchanged the next time the Zionists take soldiers bodies for LIVE terrorists who will be treated like heroes.
only death penalty will help
Let’s hope they stay in jail for life, and don’t get released in another “prisoner swap”.