An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced Hamas terrorist Ahmad Asafra to life in prison with an additional 25 years for the 2019 murder of Dvir Sorek.
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Asafra was was also ordered to pay $450,000 to the family of Dvir Sorek.
Sorek, an 18-year-old yeshiva student, was stabbed to death near the Samaria settlement of Migdal Oz. He was in a program that combines Torah study with military service; however, he was not in the military at the time of his killing.
Sorek's body was found on a road leading to the yeshiva where he was studying. The attackers fled the scene but were found after a 48-hour search. They told investigators they killed Sorek due to "the suffering of the Palestinian people" and "the situation at Al-Aqsa."
Asafra was convicted of the murder, as well as of a series of other security offenses, in February.
The court also determined that Asafra was the commander of a Hamas terrorist cell, accepting the prosecution's position that he was guilty of the attack, although not present at the stabbing.
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Yusef Zohar, another member of the cell, was also not present during the stabbing but was convicted of several security offenses and sentenced to life imprisonment with an additional15 years.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
