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Tuesday 01 Dec 2015 - 10:58 Makkah mean time-19-2-1437
Jerusalem (IINA) – An Israeli court on Monday exonerated the main suspect in the burning alive of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir in July last year, and convicted two minor settlers who partook in the murder.
The court did not convict the 31-year-old extremist settler Yosef Haim Ben-David, who was found to have committed the crime, under the pretext of "mental illness".
According to the charges on the indictment, the three Jewish settlers beat Abu Khdeir on the head and then burned him alive, resulting in his death. The two convicted minors are expected to be sentenced on February 14.
The three terrorists claimed that they committed their heinous crime in retaliation for the killing of three settlers a month earlier.
Ben-David's lawyers submitted a report in recent days arguing his mental state meant he was not responsible for his actions at the time of the murder. However, the indictment asserts an evidence that the three fanatics searched for any Palestinian to be the victim of their crime. Consequently, they abducted Abu Khdeir from Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Shuafat, close to his home. He resisted going in, but they overpowered him and forced him into their car. Abu Khdeir was driven to a wood outside Jerusalem where he was burned alive.
Hussein Abu Khdeir, Mohammed's father denounced the lengthy delays in the verdict and called for the trio's houses to be demolished, as Israel does for Palestinian attackers.
"The court behaves one way with Arabs and another way with Jews," Abu Khdeir told reporters outside the court, calling the last-minute psychiatric report by Ben-David's lawyers a "lie" and asking why it was not submitted earlier.
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, condemns the "exoneration" of the chief suspect in the murder of teenager Mohammad Abu Khdeir. "This is an evidence of the occupation's racism and its sponsorship of the settlers' crimes against the Palestinian people," spokesman for the group Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement.
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