(MENAFN- Gulf Times) A Tel Aviv district court on Monday handed two life sentences to a Palestinian man who fatally stabbed two people last November, according to a court statement.
The judge justified the harsh sentence based on the heinous nature of the November 19, 2015, attack in a Tel Aviv commercial tower.
According to the statement, Raed Khalil, who was staying with his brother in the Panorama tower, which also has residences, took a 23-centimetre knife from a nearby kebab restaurant and stabbed one Israeli man 14 times and another nine times, as well as severely injured one other person.
Khalil, from the West Bank town of Dura, was also sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison on three counts of attempted murder.
More than 35 Israelis have been killed over the past year in similar attacks, and at least 200 Palestinians have been killed in Jerusalem and the West Bank in the same period, including suspected assailants who died during attacks and people killed by Israeli security forces.
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