The district court will sentence Amiram Ben-Oliel, who was convicted of murder in the Palestinian village of Duma in 2015 • The prosecution demands that he be sentenced to three life sentences
Amiram Ben Oliel
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Avshalom Shashoni
The Lod District Court will deliver its sentence this afternoon (Monday) in the trial of Amiram Ben-Oliel, who was convicted of murdering members of the Dwabsha family in the Palestinian village of Duma in 2015.
The trial of Ben Oliel // Photo: Shimon Buharis
The sentence was handed down a week after the court rejected the defendant's petition to his credit due to new evidence he claims supporting his version and four months after he was convicted.
Ben-Oliel argued in his petition that he should be acquitted due to new evidence relying on a media interview given by the boy who survived the incident.
According to Oliel, these interviews contradict the testimony he gave and on which the prosecution relied, among other things.
The judges ruled in their decision that "the defense's claim that the child describes leaving the house unharmed is inconsistent with hiding behind a couch. It cannot be determined based on his remarks that it was three or more people who entered the house. It was an interview and not an interrogation. Because if he was interrogated, he would be asked about it. "
The court ruled that "there is no reasonable doubt as to whether the throwing of the bottle by the defendant" rejected the petition and upheld the verdict.
In June, the stages of the arguments for punishment were held, and the prosecution demanded that he be sentenced to three life sentences and another 40 years.
She also demanded full compensation for the victims' families.
In May, the court convicted the defendant of the murder of three members of the Dwabsha family, although the defendant is acquitted of a transfer of membership in a terrorist organization.
The verdict said that the confessions, which were taken and approved, were given voluntarily and were given in sequence with details of authentic events, while he described the arena, and in the reconstruction even led and became acquainted with the arena.
Evidential additions were found to the confessions, and there was no credible explanation in the investigation for the presence of the binding evidence.
It was further determined that the act itself was carried out out of a motive of racism and revenge, and that for the purpose of committing the act he conspired, but this action was not evidence of membership in a terrorist organization.
A boy involved in the affair will also be sentenced on Wednesday.
He was convicted in October last year of membership in a terrorist organization.
Defendant admitted to planning and making preparations for the execution of the B'Tselem at the Duma, but did not commit a murder offense and was not involved in the serious offenses first attributed to those involved.
The panel of judges headed by Judge Ruth Lorch ruled that the accused boy committed offenses of conspiracy to commit a racially motivated crime, arson, vandalism of a racially motivated real estate, intentional sabotage and offenses of malicious damage of a racially motivated nature.
The minor pleaded guilty to the offenses attributed.
These are actions known to the public as a "price tag".