Israel sentences Hamas man to life for abduction, killing of teens
An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian to life imprisonment over the killing of three Israeli youths, whose abduction in the West Bank set off a chain of events leading to the 50-day Gaza war last summer.
The court found that Hussam Kawasmeh, a member of the militant Hamas Islamist group, planned the abduction in which Eyal Yifrach, 19, and Gilad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel, both 16, were shot dead while hitchhiking in the West Bank in June.
