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i24NEWS DESK | The primary suspect in a deadly 2015 firebombing attack on a Palestinian was found guilty on three counts of murder, The Lod District Court said on Monday.
Amiram Ben Uliel was also convicted on two counts of attempted murder and one count of arson, according to The Times of Israel, but was acquitted of being a member of a terrorist organization.
His defence team said it had notified the Supreme Court that it would lodge an appeal.
"This is a black day for the State of Israel," it said in a Hebrew-language statement. "A day on which an Israeli court set its hand to convicting a man whose innocence cries out to the heavens."
Ben-Uliel refused to testify at his trial and his lawyer sought to disqualify a confession and other prosecution evidence which he said Shin Bet security service investigators had extracted by force.
Israelis and Palestinians were shocked when three members of the Dawabsha family, including an 18-month-old infant, were killed in an overnight arson attack on their home in the West Bank village of Duma.
As outrage exploded across the region, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) performed a massive manhunt for possible suspects in the case, marking a turning point concerning Jewish terrorism inside the law enforcement bureau.
“I estimate that it won’t be too long before we see indictments against the murderers, who to our dismay are Jewish terrorists,” then-defense minister under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Moshe Ya’alon, told Israeli media.
Ben Uliel was later arrested in January 2016 for the murder of Ali Dawabsha and his parents, Sa’ad and Riham. His brother Ahmed, four at the time, was the sole survivor of the immediate family and escaped with severe burns.
