Noam Leibovitch's murderer surrenders

Jerusalem Post ^ | Nov. 3, 2003 | JPOST.COM STAFF

[yonif]

The Palestinian terrorist that carried out the June attack on the Trans-Israel Highway that killed a seven-year-old Noam Leibovitch has handed himself over to IDF forces manning a roadblock in Kalkilya on the West Bank.

Tarek Hassin, 25, an Islamic Jihad cell leader and the man who pulled the trigger on the Leibovitch family surrendered to troops Monday evening.

The June 17 attack killed Noam Leibovitch and seriously wounded her younger sister and lightly wounded her elder brother and grandfather.

The gunman had sneaked through a culvert under the security wall and riddled the Leibovitch family car and another vehicle with automatic gunfire. He then fled back to Kalkilya in the West Bank.

The Leibovitch family was returning late at night from a relative's bar mitzvah.

The Shin Bet and IDF have captured the three other members of the Islamic Jihad cell which carried out the attack.

The terrorist cell used a cafe and mosque in Kalkilya to plan the attack and distribute weapons and money funneled from abroad, security sources said.

With Arieh O'Sullivan

[anotherview]

bring to trial, convict, throw away the key

[yonif]

Murdered by an Islamic Jihad terrorist - in what they call "armed resistance to occupation."

[Tijeras_Slim]

Any more details? I can't recall one of these thugs turning themselves in before.

[anotherview]

murdered little girl ping

[Dialup Llama]

>The terrorist cell used a cafe and mosque in Kalkilya to plan the attack and distribute weapons and money funneled from abroad, security sources said.

They used a mosque.

[yonif]

Other terrorists who took part in this attack were captured by the IDF a month or two ago.

[Tijeras_Slim]

So he decides to take his chances with a possible prisoner release/swap in the future rather than have a helicopter fire a missile through his car window.

[diamondjoe]

I haven't heard of many of these guys surrendering. Wonder if he's offering information?