2 Israelis charged in deaths of Palestinians
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A court charged two Israelis yesterday over a firebombing last year that killed a Palestinian couple and their toddler, in an attack that sparked condemnation globally.
The charges are the first step in a legal case whose slow progress rights groups have criticized.
They come more than five months after the pre-dawn attack on the Dawabsha family home in the West Bank village of Duma that killed 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha, and fatally wounded his parents.
His brother, who was 4 at the time of the attack on July 31, was the sole survivor from the immediate family.
Amiram Ben-Uliel, 21, from the northern settlement of Shilo in the occupied West Bank, was charged with three counts of murder and one of attempted murder, arson and conspiracy to commit a hate crime, said the indictment.
A 17-year-old, who’s unnamed under a gag order, was charged with being an accessory to committing a racially motivated murder.
Ben-Uliel and the minor, who lived in another wildcat settlement near Duma at the time, in July 2015 plotted to avenge a Palestinian shooting dead Malachi Rosenfeld near Shilo one month earlier, a statement from the justice ministry said.
The attack drew renewed attention to Jewish extremism and charges Israel had not done enough to prevent such violence.
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