Israeli man found guilty of murder in 2015 arson attack on Palestinian family
Amiram Ben-Uliel's actions sparked outrage among both Palestinians and Israelis, but his lawyers questioned the conditions under which he confessed to the crime.
An Israeli man was found guilty today of killing a Palestinian family in the West Bank via a firebomb.
Amiram Ben-Uliel, a religious Jew from an outpost outside an Israeli settlement, was convicted of murder, attempted murder and arson, according to The Times of Israel.
In 2015, Ben-Uliel threw a Molotov cocktail into the home of the Dawabsha family, killing an 18-month-old baby boy and his two parents, and injuring their other son. The murder prompted outrage in both Israeli and Palestinian society. The deaths led to a monthslong uprising in the West Bank and clashes between Palestinians and Israel security forces there.
Ben-Uliel’s case is one of the prominent examples of recent Jewish religious extremism in the country. Ben-Uliel was part of the hilltop youth, some of whose members have sought to overthrow the Israeli government and usher in the coming of the Messiah. Part of the plan was removing all non-Jews from the land that was once the biblical Jewish kingdom.
