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14 lawmakers: Ease prison conditions of Jewish terrorist who killed Palestinian family
Amiram Ben Uliel is serving three life sentences in prison for firebombing a Palestinian family's home in the West Bank in 2015, killing a couple and their 18-month-old baby.
14 lawmakers from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s coalition called to ease the prison conditions of a Jewish terrorist who killed a Palestinian family in the West Bank in 2015.
The terrorist, Amiram Ben Uliel, was sentenced to three life sentences in prison in 2020 after he was found guilty of firebombing a Palestinian family’s home in the West Bank village of Duma.
Ben Uliel threw a firebomb in the family’s home while they were sleeping, instantly killing 18-month-old boy, Ali. His parents, Sa’ad and Raham Dawabsheh died in the hospital weeks later. Their five-year-old son Ahmed was burned severely, but survived the terror attack.
The murder of the Dawabsha family sparked international outrage at the time, due to its brutality.
The 14 lawmakers from Likud, Jewish Power party, Religious Zionism, United Today Judaism and Shas, sent a letter to Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar asking him to ease Ben Uliel’s conditions.
“There is no justification to treat him with outrageous inequality, as they do not treat security prisoners serving life sentences for brutal acts of murder that way.”
“His mental condition has recently deteriorated due to the continued isolation and there is great concern about his mental and physical health,” the letter added.
The lawmakers said that Ben Uliel should be transferred from solitary confinement to a religious wing, “at least for the High Holidays,” which begin on Friday.
Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu went a step further, sowing doubt about Israel’s judicial system.
“I don’t know if he is the murderer or not because I have no trust in the current Israeli legal system… The whole investigation was tainted… Israel’s legal system is defiled by politicisation,” he told Israeli news site Ynet.
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