Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumIsraeli Court Sentences 2 Over Palestinian Teenager's Murder
JERUSALEM An Israeli court on Thursday sentenced two Israelis in the 2014 murder of a 16-year-old Palestinian, sending one to life in prison for a crime that sparked deep soul-searching in Israel and was part of a series of events that led to the Gaza war later that year.
The court sentenced a second Israeli, believed to have had a lesser role in the crime, to 21 years in prison. Another Israeli is awaiting a verdict following a psychological examination.
"The sentence imposed on the defendants reflects what we asked for and the barbaric and atrocious act," said Ori Korb, the state prosecutor. He said the murder marked a "moral nadir."
The Israelis sentenced Thursday snatched Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir from an east Jerusalem neighborhood in July 2014, driving him to a Jerusalem forest where he was burned to death. The murder was carried out in revenge for the abduction and killing earlier that summer of three Israeli teens by Palestinians said by Israel to have been Hamas operatives.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/02/04/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel-palestinians.html
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)sentenced to life too
King_David
(14,851 posts)to delegitimize the Jewish state at every turn and pretend that there's an apartheid state.
Jews are able to run countries- Bernie Sanders is quite capable.
Verdict and sentences were not surprising at all.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Or a party with people throwing candy? Imagine that.
King_David
(14,851 posts)Infuriating to some that Israel is a great tolerant democracy....goes against the desired narrative.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)BTW, I think that it's wrong to demolish the houses of terrorists, but if only the houses of Palestinian terrorists get demolished, and the houses of Jewish terrorists are allowed to stand - then it's Apartheid.