Israel Detains 28 Palestinians in West Bank

I am afraid that the court will release them (suspects) in the end.

“This development shows that the first defendant in this case will be either acquitted or gets a mitigation excuse”, Ahmad Rwaidi said. He was bundled into a vehicle driven by David and then severely beaten by the two Israeli teens on the back seat.

There is also the lawlessness of Israel’s extrajudicial killings of Palestinians who are suspected of a crime, or caught carrying out a crime.

According to Alarabiya, the court said that the three of them admitted to kidnapping Mohammed Abu Khdeir, torturing him and burning him alive, in what they described as a revenge for the death of three Israeli men, days before kidnapping Abu Khdeir.

In August, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that so-called administrative detention, long an Israeli tactic to jail Palestinian suspects without trial or access to evidence, would be used on Israeli terror suspects, as well.

However, the fallout led to mass unrest between Israel and Palestine in the Gaza Strip, eventually leading to seven weeks of war. Gunfire from an Israeli officer trying to secure the scene slightly wounded a bystander, she said. Ben-David lived in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and is the son an ultra-Orthodox rabbi.

A court in Jerusalem has convicted two Israeli minors in the killing of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy last year. Hamas condemned what it called an “exoneration” of Ben David.

Gadi Gevaryahu, who is the head of the Tag Meir anti-racism NGO, said the postponing of Ben David’s conviction was “disappointing”.

“What is driving this terrorism is opposition to Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, within any borders”, he said as he left for the climate talks in Paris on Sunday.

Another cousin, 28-year-old Ansam Abu Khdeir, believes the legal defence had employed a loophole by pleading insanity, which would prevent a life sentence and allow for him to be kept in a psychiatric facility: “There is no justice in Israeli – it has always been this way, every Israeli who kills a Palestinian is deemed mentally unsound”. The Palestinians say the violence is rooted in frustration over a lack of hope for obtaining independence.

Hussein Abu Khudair asked, “Why haven’t they demolished the homes of these three murderers?”

“When we try to claim that we are better than our enemies – and I think that we are better than them – we should look at this event as a mirror”, he said.

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.

Before this year, arsonists considered to be Jewish radicals torched a house in the West Bank in the Palestinian village of Duma, killing a toddler and his parents.

Last week, a Palestinian attacker stabbed and killed Hadar Buchris, 21, as she stood at a bus stop at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank.

Israeli security officials declined to confirm or deny the reported Tubas arrests.