Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Forum of the Bereaved Families of Israel


 
The bereaved family of Ronen Lubarsky

'Serious mistake not to allow the death penalty'
Family of soldier killed when terrorist threw marble slab on his head slams army for refusing to request death penalty for son's killer.
Eliran Aharon, 12/06/19 16:12

The trial of the terrorist Islam Naji, who murdered IDF soldier Ronen Lubarsky last year, began at the Ofer military court Wednesday.

The incident occurred in May, 2018, during an operation of the Duvdevan unit in the al-Am'ari refugee camp. The terrorist threw a marble slab on Lubarsky's head and critically wounded him. Lubarsky died two days later.

Last December, the security forces demolished the four-story building in the al-Am'ari camp where the terrorist's family lived. The IDF initially informed the family that it had been decided to demolish two floors of the building, but after further investigation it was decided to demolish all four floors of the building, after it became clear that the terrorist's family had built the building on a plot that had been demolished by the IDF in 1990 in response to an attack carried out by the terrorist's brother.

Ronen Lubarsky
(5 April 1998 to 26 May 2018)


At the beginning of the trial, Lubarsky's family reiterated their request to impose the death penalty on the terrorist, but the Military Advocate General's Office did not bring this request before the court.

"The time has come for the Military Advocate General's Office to stop being afraid and demand that the lowly terrorist be sentenced to death," said Vladimir Lubarsky, Ronen's father, a member of the Forum of the Bereaved Families. "We will not demand less than that. Only a hard hand in fighting terror will save lives."

"It is a serious mistake on the part of the State of Israel to grant our declared enemies the right to be tried instead of killing them," he said, adding that "the implementation of deterrence against terror without hesitation will prevent the next murder."

  
Activists from Im Tirtzu hang signs across Jerusalem calling for the death penalty for terrorists in wake of murder of Ori Ansbacher.

Matan Peleg, chairman of the Im Tirtzu movement, said, "It is sad to see how lowly terrorists who murdered the best of our sons are not executed and instead celebrate in Israeli prisons. The time has come to impose a death sentence on terrorists and on their family for immediate deportation. True deterrence begins with courageous judgments. A people who value life should not create incentives for their enemies to kill them. That's not how we fight terrorism. "

Lt. Col. (res.) Morris Hirsch, former head of the military prosecution in Judea and Samaria who accompanied the family and the Forum of Choice of Life, added that "given the position that the murderer could not be sentenced to death, we hope that the court will impose on the murderer a life sentence, from which he will not be released until he dies, and a particularly large monetary compensation. According to estimates, the PA will pay Ronen's murderer some NIS 5 million during his imprisonment. Therefore, the court was asked to award regular and punitive damages to ensure that this lowly murderer does not benefit. The time has come for the military courts to adopt an approach that sends deterrence to terrorists, even in the absence of the death penalty."

A woman holds up a sign with ‘Too many terrorists in prison’ written on one side and ‘Kill them all’ written on the other during a rally in Tel Aviv on April 19, 2016 to support Elor Azaria. (Photo: Jack Guez/AFP)


Vandals graffiti Palestinian town demanding death for freed rape suspect
Cars also damaged in hometown of Mahmoud Qadusa, released from custody last month when charges he assaulted 7-year-old girl in nearby settlement were dropped over lack of evidence
By TOI staff Today, 10:23 am

Threatening graffiti messages were discovered Wednesday in the home village of a Palestinian man who was arrested in connection with an alleged rape of a 7-year-old Israeli girl, before charges were dropped and he was released.

Police said it had opened an investigation into the apparent hate crime. 

'The death penalty is necessary for Mahmoud Qadusa' sprayed on a wall in the West Bank village of Dir Kadis, July 10, 2019 (Courtesy of Dir Kadis Council)

An inscription saying “The death penalty is necessary for Mahmoud Qadusa” was sprayed on a wall in the West Bank village of Dir Kadis, referring to the formerly accused man.

The attackers also damaged several cars in the village.

Last month, 12 cars were found with their tires slashed and Hebrew hate slogans were spray-painted on walls in the nearby village of Sinjil. “We give them jobs and they rape” read one phrase daubed on a wall, in an apparent reference to the alleged attack on the child.

Qadusa, a 46-year-old maintenance custodian at the alleged victim’s school, was released in June after spending nearly two months in detention after the indictment against him came under fire for its lack of evidence.

The Haaretz daily reported Wednesday that police are currently not investigating any other suspects.

Qadusa told the Walla news site on Wednesday that he has not been contacted by police since his release.

According to the dropped charges, sometime “between the months of February and April” Qadusa dragged the girl from her school to a vacant home in the settlement, where he raped her as at least two of his friends pinned her down.

Shortly after the indictment was leaked, police came under fire for relying almost entirely on the testimony of the girl, forgoing forensic evidence in addition to being unable to determine the exact date that the alleged crime had taken place.

The seven-year-old’s parents have provided police with further evidence they say points to his guilt, according to Channel 13. The parents have reportedly given police a nude doll the mother said Qadusa gave her daughter, as well as drawings her daughter made which the mother said identified Qadusa as her attacker.

Last month the Israel Defense Forces’ military advocate general announced he was dropping the charges against Qadusa. The indictment against him had come under fire for its apparent lack of evidence, a fact that the military prosecutor, Sharon Afek, acknowledged in a statement to the press announcing the annulment of the charges.

The statement said that “the evidentiary infrastructure that underlies the indictment does not at this time amount to a ‘reasonable chance of conviction.’ Therefore, by law, the criminal process cannot continue, the indictment must be withdrawn and Qadusa released from custody.”

Only two months after the rape was believed to have taken place, police eventually arrived at the home of the alleged victim to collect her clothes for DNA testing, an official with knowledge of the investigation said.

An official also confirmed that the girl was only able to ID Qadusa in school after her mother pointed at him first and told her he was the man who had raped her.

Moreover, a failed polygraph test cited by the military court in successive decisions to extend Qadusa’s detention was carried out in Hebrew, rather than the defendant’s native Arabic, the official said.


  
Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hagbi's families and relatives [Photo: Zvika Tishler]



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