Julgamento de terroristas não-alinhados

Destaque: «The suspects also confessed to perpetrating additional stabbing and shooting attacks with the declared goal of murdering Jews. They were not believed to have been affiliated with an organized terrorist group.

Shin Bet sources said that the suspects succeeded in entering Israel through gaps in the security barrier near the settlement of Beitar Illit south of Jerusalem. “They decided they wanted to kill someone that day,” a Shin Bet source said in January.»

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The trial began on Sunday for two of the main suspected terrorists responsible for murdering American Kristine Luken in a terror attack in December of last year while she was hiking in the Jerusalem forest with her friend Kay Wilson. The attackers also attempted to kill Wilson, who barely managed to escape with her life. Wilson’s testimony to the police after the attack provided enough information to break up a ring of 13 Palestinian terrorists responsible for two murders, two attempted murders, at least one rape, and a series of other violent crimes.

The two main suspects, Ayad Fasafa and Kafah Animat, both from villages around Hebron, were arrested less than 48 hours after the attack and confessed to the crime. Forensic evidence, including a small penknife that Wilson used to stab one of her attackers, also implicated the men in the crime. In moving testimony on Sunday, Wilson recounted the events of December 18, 2010 while staring straight at the men accused of murdering Luken.

She recalled how the two had been hiking outside of Beit Shemesh in the forest when two men attacked them, binding their hands behind their backs with shoelaces, gagging them with parts of a fleece jacket, and stabbing them multiple times with a serrated knife 30 cm long. Wilson, who played dead,  was stabbed12 times and suffered several broken ribs, a punctured lung and a broken sternum. Luken was stabbed to death. Wilson described the heart-wrenching decision she had to make, whether to stay with Kristine for Luken’s last breaths, which meant Wilson would also bleed to death, or to try to make it to the path so someone would know what happened. Bleeding heavily, she staggered for more than 1,200 meters barefoot to a parking lot where a picnicking family alerted the authorities and paramedics.

The suspects were arrested on December 21, 2010 in a joint IDF-Shin Bet operation and during their interrogation confessed to perpetrating the attack and reenacted it in the field. During their interrogation, one of the suspects, Kafah Animat, confessed to another murder in February of 2010 of Neta Blatt, a teacher who was found dead near Beit Shemesh and had been considered a suicide. The suspects also confessed to perpetrating additional stabbing and shooting attacks with the declared goal of murdering Jews. They were not believed to have been affiliated with an organized terrorist group. Shin Bet sources said that the suspects succeeded in entering Israel through gaps in the security barrier near the settlement of Beitar Illit south of Jerusalem. “They decided they wanted to kill someone that day,” a Shin Bet source said in January. Read more at www.jpost.com

 

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