The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday sentenced Yosef Haim Ben-David, who organised the killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair, to life, with an additional 20 years for other counts to be served consecutively.
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The prosecution also argued that Ben-David pressured the two minors to participate in the kidnapping and murder of Mohammad Abu Khdeir in July 2014. “I ask forgiveness of the family for all that happened”.
Trump said the settlement construction must “keep going” and “keep moving forward”, because Palestinians fired “thousands of missiles” at Israel.
Ben-David was convicted last month of kidnapping and murdering Abu Khdeir.
“An assailant rammed a vehicle into three Israelis in a auto ramming attack northwest of Ramallah”, a statement said of the latest in more than seven months of attacks.
A Jewish settler who led the brutal murder of a Palestinian teenager has been sentenced to life in prison by an Israeli court.
The ringleader of a group that kidnapped and burned alive a Palestinian teenager two years ago – a revenge killing that shocked many here because of its savagery – was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison plus 20 years.
A Palestinian from a refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank rammed his auto into a group of Israeli soldiers, injuring three of them before being shot dead.
The last-minute insanity appeal by Ben-David, made just minutes before the end of the trial in November, also caused dismay among Abu Khdeir’s family, who said they feared a miscarriage of justice.
Reports have added that Ziad Amer, Zeid Amer’s father said that Israeli troops came to the family’s apartment in the northern West Bank city of Nablus at around 6.30 am on May 3 and demolished the house.
Palestinian Health Ministry affirmed in a brief statement that an unidentified Palestinian young man was shot and killed at Beitunia checkpoint west of Ramallah.
Over half a million Israelis live in more than 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank including East al-Quds (Jerusalem). On Monday, a Palestinian teenager stabbed and injured an elderly Israeli in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Two Palestinians suspected of their murders were killed by Israeli forces in a gunbattle in Hebron in September 2014.
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The victim, described by police as “a Jewish male, aged about 60”, was said by Jerusalem’s Shaarei Tzedek hospital to be in stable condition after treatment to a damaged lung.
