JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Palestinian terrorist who allegedly perpetrated the grisly murder of an elderly Jerusalem couple in 2019 has reenacted the murder to police and explained his motivation for the murders.
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The terrorist, Wasim a-Sayed, a 34-year-old Palestinian from Hebron, was recently arrested after the murder of a Moldovan foreign worker, Ivan Tarnowski, who was killed in Jerusalem on March 22. A-Sayad said that he had been inspired by ISIS to kill Jews:
“I decided that I will murder Jews but I won’t tell anyone about it. It will only be between myself and my God. I decided that the Islamic State is my path. I looked for Jewish victims. I wanted to murder a man or a woman but no children,” a-Sayed said, according to Channel 13.
A-Sayed went to the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in Jerusalem where he had previously worked to look for targets. Finding a 14-year-old girl in a building stairwell, A-Sayed attempted to slit her throat, but the collar of her shirt saved her, and he fled after failing to inflict a serious wound, the investigation revealed. The girl was lightly injured.
A day later, a-Sayed returned to the same area, in the capital’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, and saw Yehuda Kaduri, who was elderly and wearing a kippah, unloading groceries from the trunk of his vehicle and bringing them inside.
A-Sayed waited for Kaduri to reemerge from the building to make his move, and killed Tamar Kaduri, whom he found inside the apartment.
“I waited for him next to the stairs, and the moment I saw him go out again to get the grocery bags, I went into the apartment. I went into the bedroom, murdered the woman, and hid in the apartment,” he reportedly told investigators.
A-Sayed stayed hidden while Yehuda Kaduri put the groceries in the refrigerator and ate a bowl of pasta. His mention of pasta during questioning correlated with evidence police collected at the scene, affirming to investigators he was the culprit, Ynet said.
Yehuda Kaduri then went to use the bathroom and found a-Sayed in the apartment. The two fought, and a-Sayed killed the old man.
After the murders, a-Sayed stayed in the apartment overnight.
“I washed my hands in the sink. I stayed in the apartment and I was tired. I slept on the carpet all night, got up in the morning, and took the keys and an apple when I left,” he told investigators, according to Channel 13.
The unusual type of attack- without a terror group taking responsibility and inside a residential building- mystified police and led them to the mistaken conclusion that family members were involved. The Kaduri’s son Nitai and his wife were arrested and initially suspected with involvement in his parent’s murder. Police have now apologized to him for the arrest but family members said that he was handled in a callous and insensitive manner during the investigation.
Nitai Kaduri said at the time, “We’re struggling with something difficult, aside from this terrible tragedy, and that’s a total lack of transparency from authorities.”
“That includes taking me into an interrogation room just a few minutes after someone bothered to tell me that my parents had passed away,” he said.
He said he had been confined with criminals and drug addicts while arrested, and accused the police of using “brutal” tactics such as pounding on their door in the middle of the night and confiscating their vehicles.
After hitting a dead end in the investigation in 2020, police released security camera footage from the night of the murders and asked for the public’s help in identifying the suspect. The following year, they released a sketch of him.
When he was arrested by Border Police officers in March, police did not know he was linked to either the Kaduri case or the killing of the Moldovan, Tarnovski. According to police, a-Sayed was detained with a knife on his person while trying to cross the West Bank security barrier.
He was transferred to the Shin Bet over his alleged Islamic State ties, with the statement from police and the security agency saying investigators later determined he had carried out the murders.
A-Sayed had been released after two years in administrative detention for his alleged affiliation with Islamic State just four days before Tarnovski’s murder.
The announcement of a-Sayed’s arrest came as Israel has moved to crack down on Islamic State, after six Israelis were killed in a pair of terror attacks in Beersheba and Hadera by Arab Israeli supporters of IS
This is why Israel needs the death penalty.
Execute him.
The girl was saved by the collar of her shirt.
Food for thought.
Why is this guy still breathing G-D’s good air?!?
Where is Hillary Clinton when we need her to pull a “Jeffrey Epstein “ on this guy!
“A-Sayed went to the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in Jerusalem where he had previously worked to look for targets.”
Think about that one. He was let in to find work, and used that to search for targets. Perhaps the answer is, don’t let them in, let them starve where they are.