Jerusalem – An Israeli man was convicted on Tuesday of murdering a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem, as a court rejected his insanity plea for a crime that helped trigger the 2014 Gaza war.
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Prosecutors said Yosef Haim Ben-David organised the killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair. Two Jewish youths who helped him abduct the teen, who was bludgeoned, strangled and burned alive, were sentenced in February, one to life imprisonment and the other to a 21-year term.
All three defendants had confessed and said the July 2, 2014, murder was revenge for the killing days earlier of three Israeli youths by the Hamas Islamist group in the occupied West Bank.
Ben-David, 30, lodged an insanity plea that held up his formal conviction and sentencing. After receiving psychological assessments, the court ruled he “fully understood his actions” and found him guilty. He will be sentenced on May 3.
Abu Khudair’s killing raised tensions, and a seven-week Israeli offensive against the Hamas-run Gaza Strip began on July 8, 2014, after cross-border Palestinian rocket attacks and an Israeli roundup of suspected militants in the West Bank.
Of course , no mention of what sentence the Arabs who kidnapped ,& killed the three Jewish people ?????!!!!!! Typical Israeli justice .Or should I say American ????
Are there still people who believe this hogwash? I have no doubt he’d even have admitted to have been involved in masterminding the Twin Towers destruction after the tortures he’d received from the Shin Bet Mafia. Poor kid will be suffering now for who knows how long thanks to the terrorists sitting in Israel’s Supreme Sodomite Judicial Court.
Any Jew believing the Shin Bet Mafia in this case or in any of their other cases is guilty of accepting lashon hara, or worse, motzi shem ra. In this case, especially in lieu of the fact that the father of this Arab teen told police at that time that an Arab gang had murdered him, as was reported then. But police did not want to bring on Arab flurry and decided to pick up any Jew who happened to be nearby.
As stated it is obvious the Zionists tortured him to “confess to his crimes”, the Shin Bet has done this numerous times, obviously after all the torture he is not mentally stable. Are you aware that 3 Jewish boys were mutiliated PRIOR to death? Zionist justice.
Arab killers don’t need to claim insanity to get freed. They just get freed next Israel makes a deal. Free to murder more Heaven forbid.