Israeli Settler Found Guilty of Murder in Attack on Dawabsheh Family

Arab World

May 18th, 7:04am

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mourners hold posters of Palestinian Riham Dawabsheh, 27 and her family as they walk past a banner depicting her 18-month-old son Ali during her funeral at Duma village near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, September 7, 2015. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini/Files

An Israeli court found a Jewish settler guilty of racially motivated murder on Monday in a 2015 deadly arson attack on the Palestinian Dawabsheh family in the occupied West Bank. The triple conviction of Amiram Ben-Uliel, 25, by Lod District Court carries a potential life prison sentence. He has argued that Israeli investigators forced him to make a false confession to the attack on the Dawabsheh family's home in the village of Duma on July 31, 2015 that killed 18-month-old Ali and his parents Saad and Riham. A lawyer for Ben-Uliel said on Monday that he would appeal the verdict at Israel's Supreme Court. Referred to in Israel as “price-tag attacks”, such offences have usually been carried out in what the attackers say are reprisals for Palestinian attacks on Israelis or government curbs on unauthorized West Bank settlement building.

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