This morning the Parole Committee will meet to discuss the early release of the terrorist who murdered the couple Rabbi Binyamin and Talia Kahana, Gadi Rajwan and who is involved in other murders. The families of the murdered demanded from the committee not to release him "in such an act the state is actually abandoning us a second time".
The parole board of the prison service will discuss this morning (Thursday) at 9:00 at the Peace Court in Ramla, the request of the terrorist Nasser Naji Abu-Hamid to shorten his prison term. Abu-Hamid is responsible for the murder of Binyamin and Talia Kahana who were killed in a shooting attack near Ofra before About 22 years, to the murder of Gadi Rajwan about 20 years ago in a spice factory in the industrial area of Atret and involvement in other murders. The terrorist was tried and sentenced to seven life sentences plus another 50 years, now he is asking to be released due to illness.
Before the hearing, the family members submitted to the parole board that the terrorist's sentence should not be shortened.
"We have 6 children left, fatherless and motherless, between the ages of 2 months and 14. This terrible trauma is not forgotten or erased. In a world where justice, truth and morality come first, there is no The justification to treat that terrorist in the face of the law, the trauma, the loneliness, the deep pain, the feeling of being torn apart - I carry to this day," the family members wrote in a letter to the parole board.
The grave of Binyamin and Talia Kahana, photo: Eliyahu Ohion
Another daughter added and said: "As a child I always felt different, that everyone has parents and I don't. I would dream of my father and mother coming back to us, waiting for a miracle. Childhood experiences that were lost in one moment of human evil. The fears and anxieties following the trauma is a struggle. As if the soul is not capable of anything else. Everything is too much for me. And as a mother of children, the sharpness only intensifies. I carry the consequences of the attack all the time, without a break. The thought that there is some possible mercy for the abominable terrorist who destroyed My life is infuriating and frustrating to an indescribable level. The injustice screams! It's a knife in the heart, this time from the State of Israel. Don't say our hands are not Shed this blood."
Another family member described the impact of the attack on his family.
According to him, "Some of the family members experienced the event in a very extreme and difficult way, they got into serious mental problems, anxiety, dysfunction. During all the years they go through very difficult processes. They do not lead a normative life, the release of Nasser Muhammad Yusef Naji will cause them to be shaken and deeply shocked."
Gadi Rajwan and his daughter, photo: courtesy of the family
Finally, the lawyers of the family members demanded that the terrorist not be released. All his life, all his energy, every waking hour of his, planning the murder of the Jewish people must end his life behind bars."
The families were represented this morning at the hearing at the Ramla Magistrate's Court by Attorney Ofir Steiner and Attorney Haim Bleicher from the Honnu organization.
The families contacted the organization after they found out by chance that the committee intended to meet and discuss.
The date of the hearing was set as a surprise and the families found out about it a few days before the hearing, after the intervention of their lawyers the hearing was postponed until today.
Outside the discussion, bereaved families are expected to demonstrate together with other organizations.
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