Israeli teens guilty of Palestinian’s murder

Meanwhile, the lawyer of Abu Khdeir’s family said Ben David’s attorneys are attempting to manipulate the court as they file the insanity petition at the last minute. The slaying came a day after funerals for three Israeli teenagers, whose killings a month earlier in the West Bank were claimed by Hamas, the Islamic militant group.

Three Palestinians attacked Israeli troops with knives in separate incidents on Friday before they were shot and killed by the Israeli forces, the military said, the latest violence in more than two months of nearly daily Palestinian assaults against civilians and soldiers.

Violence since October 1 has left 102 dead on the Palestinian side, including an Arab Israeli, as well as 17 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean.

Suha, the mother of Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir, who was murdered past year, clasps a phone with a photo keyring of her son as she sits in the district court in Jerusalem on November 30, 2015. Both minors blamed Ben-David for planning the murder of Abu Khdeir and exerting heavy pressure on them to participate. “This non-conviction joins the legal system’s reluctance to put to trial the killers of the Dawabsha family, whose identities are known to the defense establishment”, he told the NRG website, as cited by the Times of Israel. “Why haven’t they demolished the homes of these three murderers”, Hussein Abu Khdeir asked at the last court session. The three Jewish settlers were arrested a few days after the killing and confessed, re-enacting the murder in the forest where his body was found.

A 40-year-old man was lightly injured in an alleged attempted attack on Tuesday morning at Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank according to reports by MDA.

Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker, reporting from East Jerusalem, said there was a lot of anger among Palestinians over how the court had handled the case.

“They said “we were playing karate” Aisha Abu Khdeir, 55, Mohammed’s Aunt said who saw the footage in court.

The verdicts, and eventual sentencing, could stoke tensions that are already high over access to a major Jerusalem mosque complex that Jews revere as vestige of their two ancient temples. Israel has a mandatory life sentence for adults convicted of murder, Gross said.

Ben David as well as reenacted the grisly homicide for investigators, according to authorities and the two unnamed minors admitted to the offense.

The attack on Tariq, the day after his cousin and friend Muhammad Abu Khudair was killed, was caught on video.

“When we attempt to maintain that we’re better than our enemies – and that I believe that we’re better than them – we should look only at that occasion as a mirror”, he said. The murder sparked an uprising in East Jerusalem referred to by Palestinians as “the Abu Khdeir intifada” and violence spread to cities across Israel and the West Bank.