Israel court convicts settler of arson
Published on: Tuesday, May 19, 2020
By: AFP
Amiram Ben-Uliel, a Jewish settler, is lead by police into court at the Central Lod District Court, in the central Israeli city.
LOD: An Israeli court on Monday convicted a Jewish settler on three counts of murder over a 2015 arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents, the court said.Amiram Ben-Uliel, from the northern West Bank settlement of Shilo, was also convicted on two counts each of attempted murder and arson, along with one count of conspiracy to commit a hate crime, the court said in a statement.
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His defence team said it had notified the Supreme Court that it would lodge an appeal.
“This is a black day for the state of Israel,” it said in a Hebrew-language statement.
“A day on which an Israeli court set its hand to convicting a man whose innocence cries out to the heavens.”
The firebomb attack in the occupied West Bank village of Duma killed 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha and fatally wounded his mother and father.
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