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Israel court convicts seven over wedding video celebrating arson

Settler attacks on Palestinians and their property, with the protection of the Israeli army, are rampant and a regular occurrence across the occupied West Bank [File: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]

An Israeli court convicted seven Jewish men of inciting violence and terror and a slew of other charges for their involvement in a 2015 wedding in which participants celebrated an arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents.

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday found the seven guilty of a raft of offences after “glorifying with dance and song the murder of the Dawabsheh family” in a firebombing attack in the occupied West Bank by illegal Jewish settlers in July 2015.

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