Israeli ministers call for death penalty for Halamish terrorist

Several ministers in the security cabinet ahead of Sunday’s cabinet meeting called for the terrorist who massacred a family in Halamish on Friday night to be executed.

 

Military courts can sentence someone to death, though the option has not been used since 1962, when Adolf Eichmann was hanged after being convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.

 

The ministers called for the death penalty for 19-year-old Palestinian Omar al-Abed who entered a home in Halamish in Samaria and began stabbing members of the Salomon family, as they were having Shabbat dinner. He murdered Yosef Salomon, 70, and his children Chaya, 46, and Elad, 36, who was celebrating the birth of his fifth child. He also severely injured Yosef’s wife, Tovah, who remains hospitalized.

 

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