(Times of Israel) Cousins Nasir and Qasseem al-Asafra were indicted earlier this month in the Aug. 9 murder of Dvir Sorek, 18, near the Gush Etzion Junction. Nasir stabbed Sorek to death while Qasseem drove the vehicle. "I called Nasir and asked him to meet me by the road. I picked him up...and we drove to the Gush Etzion Junction. We talked and I suggested that we kidnap a settler and hide him," Qasseem said, according to transcripts of their interrogation obtained by Yediot Ahronot. Qasseem said the plan was always to kill the victim, but the two saw the potential of "confusing" and "tiring" the Israeli security forces as they searched for the missing person as an added benefit. "I told him [Nasir] I would wait in the car and 'You try to kidnap the settler...and if you succeed we'll take the settler and put him in the trunk...if you can't kidnap him, murder him.'"
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