Israel hands Palestinian life sentence for killing Israeli soldier

Israeli occupation authorities sentenced the Jerusalemite prisoner Hayel Issa Deifallah, from the town of Rafat northwest of Jerusalem, to life imprisonment on charges of killing an Israeli soldier, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center for Human Rights in Jerusalem said the occupation court also imposed a financial penalty of around $465,000 in addition to the life term.

Israel accused Deifallah of killing the Israeli soldier in a car-ramming attack at the Burqa junction, east of Ramallah, about 14 months ago.

In March Israeli bulldozers demolished Deifallah’s home in a punitive and collective punishment measure against his family which is against international law.