Zionist Killer of Palestinian Baby, Parents Handed 3 Life Sentences
WEST BANK (Dispatches) – A court in the occupied territories, in a verdict rarely handed to Zionist criminals, sentenced a Zionist settler to life imprisonment on Monday for killing a Palestinian couple and their baby in a 2015 arson attack in the occupied West Bank.
The deaths of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents Saad and Riham in the village of Duma contributed to a surge of anti-Palestinian violence after talks stalled in 2014.
Amiram Ben-Uliel, 21 at the time of the killings, was convicted in May of three counts of murder and two charges of attempted murder in what a court determined were racially-motivated crimes.
Palestinians see the Zionist regime as sluggish in cracking down on Zionist militants, compared with the speedy and sometimes lethal response by Zionist troops to resistance measures by Arabs.
On Monday, a district court in Lod in central parts of the occupied territories sentenced Ben-Uliel to three consecutive life terms for the murders and another 20 years for the attempted murders.
Ben-Uliel firebombed the Dawabsheh family home and another dwelling in Duma after spray-painting "Revenge” and "Long Live King Messiah” on their walls, the Lod court found.
Another Dawabsheh son, Ahmed, survived with severe burns.
The court’s ruling said his confession included details from the arson scene that only a perpetrator could know. However, strangely enough, he was acquitted of a charge of belonging to a terrorist organization.
A second, underage defendant in the case was convicted as an accessory as part of a plea bargain. His sentence is pending.
The deaths of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents Saad and Riham in the village of Duma contributed to a surge of anti-Palestinian violence after talks stalled in 2014.
Amiram Ben-Uliel, 21 at the time of the killings, was convicted in May of three counts of murder and two charges of attempted murder in what a court determined were racially-motivated crimes.
Palestinians see the Zionist regime as sluggish in cracking down on Zionist militants, compared with the speedy and sometimes lethal response by Zionist troops to resistance measures by Arabs.
On Monday, a district court in Lod in central parts of the occupied territories sentenced Ben-Uliel to three consecutive life terms for the murders and another 20 years for the attempted murders.
Ben-Uliel firebombed the Dawabsheh family home and another dwelling in Duma after spray-painting "Revenge” and "Long Live King Messiah” on their walls, the Lod court found.
Another Dawabsheh son, Ahmed, survived with severe burns.
The court’s ruling said his confession included details from the arson scene that only a perpetrator could know. However, strangely enough, he was acquitted of a charge of belonging to a terrorist organization.
A second, underage defendant in the case was convicted as an accessory as part of a plea bargain. His sentence is pending.