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| 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.
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Ronen Lubarsky
(5 April 1998 to 26 May 2018)
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SOURCE: https://www.ronenlubarsky.com/]
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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."
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Activists from Im Tirtzu hang signs across
Jerusalem calling for the death penalty for terrorists in wake of murder of Ori
Ansbacher.
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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."
INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/264499
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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)
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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
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.
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'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)
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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.
INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.timesofisrael.com/west-bank-graffiti-demands-death-penalty-for-freed-suspect-in-7-year-olds-rape/
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Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hagbi's families and relatives [Photo:
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