Jerusalem – Palestinian Man Found Guilty Of Murdering Three Israelis At Their Shabbat Table

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    Volunteers from the ZAKA search and rescue organization remove blood from the scene of a Palestinian terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Halamish on July 21 that killed three members of one family as they sat at their Shabbat table. (Photo courtesy of ZAKA)Jerusalem – A Palestinian man was found guilty of murdering three members of an Israeli family as they sat around their Shabbat table in the West Bank settlement of Halamish.

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    Omar al-Abed on Wednesday morning was found guilty of stabbing to death the three members of the Salomon family in July.

    The military prosecution requested four life sentences for Abed – one for each of the dead and another for the two counts of attempted murder. Prior to the court hearing on Wednesday, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman in a statement and on Twitter called for the death penalty, which is an option in military court but has not been sought, according to Haaretz. A sentencing hearing will be held at a later date.

    Yosef Salomon, 70, and his children Chaya, 46, and Elad, 36, were killed in the attack in the family home where they were gathered to celebrate the birth of a baby boy in the family. Tovah Salomon, 68, Yosef’s wife and mother to the two other victims, was stabbed and seriously injured. Michal Solomon, the wife of Elad, ran with the couple’s five children to the safety of an upstairs room that she locked before calling security services.

    Israeli Prime Minister also reportedly called for the death penalty for Abed while with the family during the shiva period.

    Following the prosecution’s request for life sentences that family issued a statement decrying the request. “We understand we’re being toyed with. They’re talking and talking, but not really doing what needs to be done. They could have picked up the phone and demanded it. The prime minister and defense minister were at the shiva and explicitly told us that they would work on it, that it could be promoted,” the family said.

    Liberman responded in a tweet: “As defense minister, I have no authority to provide instruction to military prosecutors or judges. As chairman of Yisrael Beitenu and an Israeli citizen I call on the judges to sentence the despicable terrorist to death.”

    Abed said in a Facebook post prior to carrying out the attack that he called his “last testament” that the situation at the Temple Mount inspired his planned attack. Days before the murders, two Israeli policemen were killed by three Israeli-Arab gunmen in an attack on the Temple Mount.

    Abed, who comes from a Palestinian village near the Halamish settlement, was stopped from continuing his attack when a soldier on weekend leave who lived next door shot him through the window of the house.


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    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    6 years ago

    hell be out in the next prisoner exchange of terrorists for Jewish rotten bodies.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    6 years ago

    That is why there will, never pease because they are wild chayes and even animals ae better

    6 years ago

    This attack was in response to putting up a camera after our sioliders were ruthelessly murdered. We were attacked because we tried to protect oursleves. These palestinains are animals.

    Yes its very sad that Bibi won’t enact the death penality for this beast. May the palestinains suffer a slow painful death with yena machal and Lou Gehrig’s

    6 years ago

    Perhaps we should all come to the aid of this victim of the Israeli court. So many life sentences! All he was doing was expressing his anger about the “occupation”. Isn’t he entitled to his feelings? Shall he stifle them?

    Here’s my proposal. Since he will be alive, he will one day engage in a campaign that will be heralded throughout the MSM. It is called a hunger strike. He will do this, prompting a flurry of activity, to provide him medical care, to engage in negotiations about this, with some time diverted to interviews, etc. The costs of all this can become enormous. I suggest he be provided with the barest minimum of food and water while in prison, little enough that he cannot engage in much. No lawyers, appeals, and no visitors. Yes, we will make his entire stay in prison about hunger. Will save Israeli taxpayers a few shekel. And in his weakened state, let him experience all the anger he wants. No one should pay for that, with money, their health, or their lives.

    stamm
    stamm
    6 years ago

    Was shot and stayed alive?and who assisted in his recovery? דא ליגט די הונט באגראבן
    If not death penalty at least encourage killing any shooter,or anyone coming at u with a knife rachmono litslan