Israel: Jewish settler sentenced to life for murder of three Palestinians
Amiram Ben Uliel at Lod Court, May 18, 2020. Avshalom Sassoni / Pool Photo via AP
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An Israeli settler was sentenced on Monday, September 14 to life imprisonment for the murder of a Palestinian baby and his parents, who died in an arson attack on their house in July 2015 in the village of Douma, in the northern West Bank. .
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The court of Lod (center) had last May found Amiram Ben Uliel, 25, guilty of
the arson of the house of the Dawabsheh family
, of three murders, of an attempted homicide and of conspiracy with a view to committing a racist crime.
In July 2015, 18-month-old baby Ali Dawabcheh was burned alive in his sleep after Molotov cocktails were thrown at his home in Douma, in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. His father Saad and mother Riham died. to their burns in the following weeks.
Only his brother, Ahmed, then four years old, survived.
During his confession, Ben Uliel, who was living at the time of the crime in a settlement in the occupied West Bank, claimed to have wanted to avenge the death of Malachi Rosenfeld, a settler shot dead by Palestinians, in the Douma village area.
On Monday, the court sentenced the young man to a total of three cumulative sentences and heavy fines that he will have to pay to the sole survivor of the tragedy and to the occupant of a nearby house whom he had also beaten up. of Molotov cocktails, reports our correspondent in Jerusalem,
Michel Paul
.
“
This tragic result does not come from a spontaneous act but carefully prepared and driven by an extremist ideology and racism.
The accused wanted the inhabitants of the house that he burned down only because they were Arabs living in Douma,
”said the judge, who was widely insulted by relatives of the accused.
In May 2019, another Israeli arrested in this case pleaded guilty to participating in the preparation of a "racist crime".
And last October, justice condemned him for "belonging to a terrorist organization", in reference to a group of radical settlers who question the authority of the state.
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