Court to decide if Israeli who burnt Palestinian alive is sane
A court in Israel is set to decide if a man who burnt a Palestinian teenager alive is sane enough to face trial for the killing.
On Tuesday, a court in al-Quds (Jerusalem) announced that the decision would be made behind closed doors since it involved psychological evaluations of Yosef Haim Ben-David.
However, the court did not make clear if any decision was going to be made on Tuesday.
Ben-David is a Jewish settler who abducted Mohammed Abu Khdeir outside his neighborhood mosque, drove into a forest, beat and then burned him on July 2, 2014.
The Israeli was the leader of a three-member gang and was charged by a court with carrying out the killing along with two others in November 2015.
In December 2015, Tel Aviv accepted a late insanity plea by Ben-David’s lawyers and set a new hearing for him for January 2016. But the hearing was postponed last month to Tuesday.
The two settlers who accompanied Ben David were convicted for the killing of Abu Khdeir and are now awaiting their sentences, which are due to take place on Thursday.
The case has sparked claims that Israeli courts are too lenient with Israeli criminals. Apart from widespread international condemnation, the killing sparked multiple protests and clashes in the West Bank.
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