An Israeli settler was sentenced 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 2015, in the occupied West Bank.
The Lod court found Amiram Ben-Ouliel guilty of these murders last May.
On Monday, he sentenced the young Jewish settler to a total of "three sentences" of life imprisonment, one per murder.
In July 2015, 18-month-old baby Ali Dawabcheh was burned alive in his sleep after Molotov cocktails were thrown at his house in Douma, in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
His father Saad and his mother Riham, surprised like him in their sleep, succumbed to their burns in the following weeks.
Only her brother, Ahmed, then four years old, survived.
This tragedy had aroused great emotion in the Palestinian territories, in Israel and abroad.
Another condemned settler
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.
Following the attack, Israel had been criticized abroad and by human rights organizations for its "laxity" vis-à-vis radical groups.
The Palestinians had accused the Jewish state of "supporting" Jewish extremism.
Unanimous Israeli leaders, however, denounced "Jewish terrorism".
With AFP
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