Palestinian sentenced to life for Jewish teen's murder
Judea military court finds Iman Kamamgi guilty of kidnapping, murder and planning suicide attack. Orders two terms of life imprisonment
The Judea Military Court convicted Iman Kamamgi Sunday for the murder of 18-year-old Eliyahu Asheri, who was kidnapped from a hitchhiking post near the settlement of Ofra a year ago and was shot to death.
Kamamgi confessed and was subsequently convicted of numerous felonies, including attempted kidnapping, kidnapping with aggravating circumstances, conspiracy to commit murder, murder and firing a weapon with the intent to harm others.
"The man a killed was no boy, he was attending the Air Force Academy… I'm not the first and I won't be the last," said Kamamgi.
Captain Sagiv Lichtman, who prosecuted the case, said during the hearing "this was a vile act which the defendant committed with his bare hands… the brutal nature of the act followed by the fact that he sent the pictures (of the body and ID card) prove beyond a doubt that theses actions were premeditated."
Kamamgi was also convicted of planning a suicide attack via a car bomb carrying 200 pounds of explosives, which he planned to detonate near a bus. He was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment.
