An Israeli court found a Jewish settler guilty of racially motivated murder on Monday in a 2015 deadly arson attack on the Palestinian Dawabsheh family in the occupied West Bank.
The triple conviction of Amiram Ben-Uliel, 25, by Lod District Court carries a potential life prison sentence.
He has argued that Israeli investigators forced him to make a false confession to the attack on the Dawabsheh family's home in the village of Duma on July 31, 2015 that killed 18-month-old Ali and his parents Saad and Riham.
A lawyer for Ben-Uliel said on Monday that he would appeal the verdict at Israel's Supreme Court.
Referred to in Israel as “price-tag attacks”, such offences have usually been carried out in what the attackers say are reprisals for Palestinian attacks on Israelis or government curbs on unauthorized West Bank settlement building.
