Hate wedding: acquittal of five minors accused of incitement Israel today

The five minors accused of incitement following the "hate wedding" were acquitted today (Wednesday) of the offenses attributed to them.

The credit was given in the Juvenile Court in Jerusalem.

The wedding took place in 2015, a few months after the attack in the village of Duma, in which Saad and Riham Dwabsha perished along with their one-and-a-half-year-old son Ali in a fire that broke out in their home after Molotov cocktails were thrown at him.

In the horrific incident, Ahmad Dwabsha, then 4, was seriously injured. Amiram Ben-Oliel was convicted of the family murder last September.

Documentation from the same wedding, published in the media, showed the participants of the event dancing and waving weapons and stabbing the picture of baby Ali Dwabsha.

Three of the defendants acquitted today will be represented by David Barhum, Menachem Stauber and Avraham Cohen on behalf of the Public Defender's Office.

"The court today won an unequivocally just verdict on all the minors from the wedding event which was given the dubious name 'hate wedding'," said Advocate Barhum. , And this in our opinion is in any case also not conceivable as being minors being dragged after others.

A freedom-seeking state knows how to draw the line between a criminal statement and an indecent non-criminal statement.

We have a clear expression of such a principle today. "

The home of members of the Dwabsha family after the attack, Photo: IPI

After the acquittal, MK Itamar Ben Gvir commented on the court's decision.

"I really did not like that they stabbed a baby picture and do not have to agree with the unattractive pictures broadcast from the wedding, to understand that in the State of Israel there should be no discrimination, in Rahat celebrating with guns, in Umm al-Fahm shootings at weddings and only here filed an indictment."

Ben Gvir added: "Not every bad and ugly act is criminal and it is important that the court sent a message to the State Attorney's Office that it is not a criminal offense. Freedom of expression will be examined in moments like this.