Malachi Rosenfeld
Accomplice in murder of Malachi Rosenfeld gets life sentence
Amjad Hamed, who aided and abetted the terror cell before and after attack, sentenced to life in prison by military tribunal and ordered to pay NIS 325,000 in restitution. 'Only appropriate punishment was life imprisonment,' says verdict.
A Hamas terrorist who was part of the cell that murdered Malachi Rosenfeld
and wounded three others in a 2015 attack
was sentenced to life in prison on Monday.
Amjad Hamed, who was sentenced at a military tribunal, was also ordered to pay NIS 325,000 restitution and a NIS 25,000 fine.
Hamed was convicted of being accessory to murder, the attempted murder of Rosenfeld's friends, involvement in two other terrorist attacks and other security-related offenses.
Malachi Rosenfeld, who was murdered in the 2015 attack
According to the verdict, Hamed supplied the terror group with the weapons used in the attack, suggested the site to carry it out and attempted to cover up the attack by cleaning the weapons afterwards and destroying the car used by the terror cell.
"We were of the opinion a life sentence accurately communicates the disdain and scorn we felt for the deeds committed by the defendant, which may be viewed as one continuous felonious activity," the judges wrote in their decision.
The bloodied vehicle Malachi and friends were in when they were attacked (Photo: TPS)
On January the group's driver Abdullah Ishaq was also sentenced to life imprisonment. He was also sentenced to 30 years in prison for the attempted murder of the three other Israelis.
"The killer will be punished, although we would have preferred a death penalty and expelling his family," said Eliezer Rosenfeld, the victim's father.
Malachi Rosenfeld, 25, was murdered after returning from a basketball game with friends at the Shvut Rachel junction near Shilo in the West Bank. His older brother, who was an air force pilot, was killed 13 years prior while hiking in the Tze'elim Stream.
