An Israeli court on Monday handed down three life sentences to a Jewish extremist convicted in a 2015 arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents. The Lod District Court in May found Amiram Ben-Uliel guilty of murder for the killing of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh by firebombing his home in the West Bank village of Duma. The 2015 arson attack came amid a wave of vigilante attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank by suspected Jewish extremists. It said he claimed the arson was in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli by Palestinians a month earlier. Ahmad Dawabsheh, the survivor of the arson attack, sits in his grandparents' home in Duma on May 18.

Source: CBC News September 14, 2020 14:03 UTC