Two peace-loving Palestinians murdered a cabbie in what is now declared a terror attack.
(JPost) The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the IDF have captured the killers of Gregory Rabinovitch, a 55-year-old taxi driver from Ashdod who was murdered in early May, security officials announced on Thursday.Update: "We killed [Rabinovich] because he was a Jew," the suspects confessed during their investigation.
The killers, Mahmad Haldi and Mahmoud Uda, both 22, are Palestinians from the village of Arana, said the officials, adding that both had confessed to killing Rabinovitch.
In his interrogation, Haldi said the two decided to murder Rabinovitch in nationalistic revenge for a slain family member who was also a senior Islamic Jihad man killed by Israel in 2007.
Haldi and Uda entered Israel legally on May 10 but were planning to carry out a robbery in the Ashdod area, stated the officials. They said that together with a third man, the two boarded Rabinovitch's cab and decided to rob him. They then allegedly led the driver to a side road near Gan Yavne, where they strangled him to death.
Haldi also admitted to interrogators that he was involved in shooting attacks, and that he planned to kidnap and murder an IDF soldier in the West Bank.
The two suspects were remanded for five more days in a Petah Tikva District Court hearing on Thursday morning.
