A Palestinian terrorist who was shot after ramming his vehicle into security personnel is scheduled to undergo cosmetic surgery in an Israeli hospital later this year.

Azmi Nafa is serving a 20-year sentence over the Nov. 24, 2015, terrorist attack at the Tapuach Junction in Samaria, in which four Israel Defense Forces soldiers were lightly wounded.

IDF troops neutralized the terrorist on site, shooting him in the head before taking him into custody.

Nafa, who is incarcerated at the maximum-security Gilboa Prison in northern Israel, is now scheduled to undergo cosmetic surgery at Afula’s Emek Medical Center in December, according to Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) sources cited by Channel 14 on Thursday.

“The prisoner has been under medical observation since 2020 due to a gunshot wound to his head,” a spokesperson for the Israel Prison Service told the broadcaster. “In the period prior to the tenure of the acting [IPS] commissioner [Kobi Yaakobi], he received medical treatment, and he was scheduled for continued treatment until December 2024.

“This is a procedure that is not life-saving, and therefore, it is currently only a hospital recommendation, which will be examined later, according to Israel Prison Service policies,” added the spokesperson.

Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, security prisoners have been barred from receiving non-life-saving treatments. According to the Prison Service, the surgery that Nafa is scheduled to undergo later this year is “not cosmetic,” but not life-saving either.

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