In July 2015, a baby of 18 months has been burned alive while he was sleeping. His father and his mother, surprised them in their sleep, had succumbed to their burns.

The fact various sordid had aroused an intense emotion in the palestinian territories but also abroad and in Israel. An israeli settler was sentenced Monday by an israeli court for murder of a baby palestinian and his parents, all killed in the arson of their home in 2015, in the occupied west bank. The court of Lod (centre) has also recognized Amiram Ben-Ouliel guilty of attempted homicide, arson, and conspiracy to commit a hate crime.

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In July 2015, a baby of 18 months, Ali Dawabcheh, was burned alive while he was sleeping, after that incendiary devices had been launched against his house, the Duma, between Nablus and Ramallah in the west bank, palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. Her father Saad and his mother, Riham, surprised them in their sleep, had succumbed to their injuries in the following weeks. Only the brother of the baby, Ahmed, then aged four years, has survived the drama.

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A sentence not yet known

The sentence which has been condemned Amiram Ben-Ouliel, who was the main suspect in this case, is not known in the immediate future. The israeli organization Honenou, who has assisted in the defense of the defendant, indicated that it would apply to the supreme Court.

Amiram Ben-Ouliel has refused to testify during his trial and was sentenced on the basis of his confession during the interrogation. His lawyer, Asher Ohayon, criticized Monday on the radio Kan the use of confessions obtained by him under “the torture continued for three weeks,” the Shin Bet, the internal security of israel.

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“it’s still an act of justice, incomplete as we are certain that the fire is not the fact of a single person”, has regretted Nasser Dawabcheh, the uncle of the baby, after the announcement of the sentence. The Hebrew State had been criticized by organizations defending human rights for its “laxity” vis-à-vis extremist groups of jews. The Palestinians had accused Israel of “support” to extremist jew.