{"id":84060,"date":"2025-07-03T19:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/?p=84060"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:22:36","slug":"from-jerusalem-to-gaza-the-bloody-path-of-abu-sninah-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/from-jerusalem-to-gaza-the-bloody-path-of-abu-sninah-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"From Jerusalem to Gaza: The Bloody Path of Abu Sninah Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three notorious terrorists, one of them a Jerusalem native, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza after years of involvement in deadly attacks against Israeli civilians. All three had previously been released from Israeli prisons as part of the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal<\/p>\n

According to Hamas’ Information Office for Prisoner Affairs, the strike was deliberately aimed at the three men while they were near a food distribution point. Palestinian sources claim the bodies were buried under rubble and took hours to recover<\/p>\n

Murder on the way to the Western Wall<\/h3>\n

One of the three was Bassem Abu Sninah<\/strong>, a terrorist from Jerusalem who murdered 25-year-old yeshiva student Chaim Kerman<\/strong> in 1998. Kerman, a resident of the Old City and a student at Ateret Cohanim Yeshiva, was attacked at 5:45 a.m. while walking to morning prayers at the Western Wall<\/p>\n

He managed to fire a single bullet from his licensed weapon before being stabbed four times\u2014in the chest, stomach, leg, and arm. His murderers were Abu Sninah and another Jerusalem resident, Riyad Asila. The two ambushed him in an alley and stabbed him over 30 times<\/p>\n

Premeditated hatred<\/h3>\n

According to the indictment filed at the Jerusalem District Court, Abu Sninah and his accomplice had meticulously mapped out the yeshiva students\u2019 walking routes to and from synagogue<\/p>\n

(New Arrests at Jerusalem Wall Amid Ongoing Crackdown<\/a>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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\u201cThe defendants planned the murder in detail and executed it solely because the victim was Jewish,\u201d wrote the judges. \u201cIn committing such a brutal act, they forfeited any trace of humanity<\/p>\n

During his police interrogation, Abu Sninah claimed he murdered Kerman to avenge the 1994 massacre in Hebron, when his grandfather was killed by Baruch Goldstein. He was sentenced to life in prison<\/p>\n

Released, returned to terror, and exiled<\/h3>\n

Abu Sninah was freed in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange. He joined Hamas in Gaza and helped coordinate attacks through operatives in the West Bank and within Israel
He funneled money to terrorists and security prisoners to encourage further attacks. After renewed terror involvement, he was re-arrested and went on a hunger strike in prison. In 2013, he was expelled permanently to Gaza<\/p>\n

His end came in a targeted strike\u2014years after the murder that began it all<\/p>\n

(45,000 Pray at Al-Aqsa as Islamic Year Begins<\/a>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The terrorist who murdered Chaim Kerman on his way to pray in Jerusalem was finally eliminated in Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":84063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"From Jerusalem to Gaza: The Bloody Path of Abu Sninah Ends","_seopress_titles_desc":"The terrorist who murdered Chaim Kerman on his way to pray in Jerusalem was finally eliminated in Gaza","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jerusalem-kerman-abu-sninah-gaza-en.jpeg","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":84063,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":1600,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":1200,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[8747,9372],"class_list":["post-84060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-184","tag-jerusalem-en","tag-western-wall-en"],"acf":{"subtitle":"The terrorist who murdered Chaim Kerman on his way to pray in Jerusalem was finally eliminated in Gaza"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}