They say he planned the attack with another person, a minor, but when that unnamed suspect failed to show up at a designated rendezvous point, Ben Uliel carried out the attack alone.
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A minor who was not named confessed to helping plan the Duma attack, according to Shin Bet, and was charged with providing assistance and conspiracy to commit a crime.
Israeli Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel of the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party had urged a high-level investigation of the allegations that the Duma defendants were tortured and for a Shin Bet overhaul. Two of them are also minors. “The confession… was extracted with force and beatings using methods that remind of the inquisition”, said Itamar Ben-Gvir, a lawyer representing the two arson suspects.
Activists affiliated with The Rebellion, authorities say, do not recognize the authority of Israeli courts and Israeli democracy, and they hope to see Israeli rule eventually replaced by a Jewish theocracy.
According to the same source, the Jewish terrorists in this case are part of the so-called “Hilltop Youth”, a leaderless group of young militants who constantly attack Palestinian land.
“During 2015, at least 11,307 Jewish extremists and 2,757 Israeli soldiers and police officers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa compound”, Jawad Siyam, head of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, told Anadolu Agency.
Having the suspects indicted was applauded, however, by the Yesha council, which is made up of a group of settlements in the West Bank.
In the past three months of violence, Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers have killed 21 Israelis, mostly in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks. That death toll doesn’t include the two people killed in a Friday shooting in Tel Aviv, as the motive for that assault remains unclear.
The statement added that the group “condemns these heinous acts of unadulterated murder and will continue to work together with the security forces to ensure a peaceful future for all the residents of Judea and Samaria”, an Israeli phrase for the West Bank.
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JERUSALEM (AP) – A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli woman in Jerusalem before being shot and wounded on Monday, police said, the latest in a series of attacks in recent months. The Palestinians say it is rooted in frustration stemming from almost five decades of Israeli occupation.
