A suspected teenager in a Duma terrorist trial released under house arrest

Lod District Court ordered police Thursday morning to release minor charged with involvement in terrorist attack
in which three members of the Dawabsheh family in the Palestinian village of Duma in 2015 were killed.

The teenager, who was 17 years old at the time of the attack and who has been under arrest for more than two years, will be released and placed under house arrest. He was charged with conspiring to commit murder, but not for the murder itself. He has also been indicted for a series of other unrelated crimes.

It is currently believed that the unidentified suspect did not take part in the firebombing but participated in his planning.

The judge, Ami Kobo, ruled that the teenager would be placed under permanent house arrest and would be obliged to wear an electronic bracelet. The defendant will also be prohibited from leaving Israel.

On July 31, 2015, Molotov badtails were thrown at the home of the Dawabsheh family in the northern West Bank village, killing an eighteen-month-old child, Ali, and seriously injuring a four-year-old child. brother and both parents. The parents, Saad and Riham Dawabsheh, later succumbed to their injuries.

While Kobo will not participate in the attack The final verdict, he argued during the discussions on the case that the evidence against the teenager regarding the charges served against him in the murder of the family was weakened, as was the evidence implicating in a arson attack on a church. Regarding his membership in a terrorist organization, however, Kobo said the evidence remains strong.

Hussein Dawabsheh, the baby's grandfather who was killed in the attack expressed his indignation at the decision. "We went through a difficult day, I felt like I did it the day I saw Ali burned in. He should stay in prison all his life," he said. he said, promising to bring the case to the Supreme Court.

Almost a month ago, the Lod District Court ruled that the majority of confessions
given by the two alleged Jewish terrorists are admissible, except those obtained under duress or by "special means" by the Shin Bet.

Another "hypothetical" confession of the minor in the Duma – without mention of names, but with a general description of the act – will also remain admissible. All other confessions that he provided were disqualified, even though there was no force involved in their extraction.

In January 2016, an indictment was filed against the central defendant in the case, Amiram Ben-Uliel, a resident of an outpost near Shila who at the time of the attack, was 21 years old.

Ben-Uliel is accused of three counts of murder in the incendiary bombing and two counts of attempted murder, arson and conspiracy to commit a racially motivated crime.

The Central District Court said last month that it would consider a request
release the minor. The lawyers who represented him asked the court to consider releasing him after the Lod District Court had ruled days before on the inadmissibility of some of the confessions given in the investigation conducted by the Shin Bet.