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Life Sentences Handed Down in West Bank Soldier Killings

2/8/2026

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Ali Dandis, arrested December 2024, was sentenced to multiple life terms for a 2007 West Bank shooting that killed two Israeli soldiers.
Muhammad Youssef Jaradat, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member, received a life sentence for killing Yehuda Dimentman near Homesh in 2021.
The Samaria Military Court ordered Jaradat to pay compensation to Dimentman's family and the wounded, while three other suspects remain on trial.

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Ali Dandis, arrested December 2024, was sentenced to multiple life terms for a 2007 West Bank shooting that killed two Israeli soldiers.
Muhammad Youssef Jaradat, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member, received a life sentence for killing Yehuda Dimentman near Homesh in 2021.
The Samaria Military Court ordered Jaradat to pay compensation to Dimentman's family and the wounded, while three other suspects remain on trial.