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Israeli Settler Found Guilty of Murder in Attack on Dawabsheh Family

Mourners hold posters of Palestinian Riham Dawabsheh, 27 and her family as they walk past a banner depicting her 18-month-old son Ali during her funeral at Duma village near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, September 7, 2015. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini/Files
Mourners hold posters of Palestinian Riham Dawabsheh, 27 and her family as they walk past a banner depicting her 18-month-old son Ali during her funeral at Duma village near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, September 7, 2015. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini/Files
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Israeli Settler Found Guilty of Murder in Attack on Dawabsheh Family

Mourners hold posters of Palestinian Riham Dawabsheh, 27 and her family as they walk past a banner depicting her 18-month-old son Ali during her funeral at Duma village near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, September 7, 2015. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini/Files
Mourners hold posters of Palestinian Riham Dawabsheh, 27 and her family as they walk past a banner depicting her 18-month-old son Ali during her funeral at Duma village near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, September 7, 2015. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini/Files

An Israeli court found a Jewish settler guilty of racially motivated murder on Monday in a 2015 deadly arson attack on the Palestinian Dawabsheh family in the occupied West Bank.

The triple conviction of Amiram Ben-Uliel, 25, by Lod District Court carries a potential life prison sentence.

He has argued that Israeli investigators forced him to make a false confession to the attack on the Dawabsheh family's home in the village of Duma on July 31, 2015 that killed 18-month-old Ali and his parents Saad and Riham.

A lawyer for Ben-Uliel said on Monday that he would appeal the verdict at Israel's Supreme Court.

Referred to in Israel as “price-tag attacks”, such offences have usually been carried out in what the attackers say are reprisals for Palestinian attacks on Israelis or government curbs on unauthorized West Bank settlement building.

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African Peace and Security Council Proposes Sudan Roadmap

Plumes of smoke rise during clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan, September 26, 2024. (Reuters)
Plumes of smoke rise during clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan, September 26, 2024. (Reuters)
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African Peace and Security Council Proposes Sudan Roadmap

Plumes of smoke rise during clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan, September 26, 2024. (Reuters)
Plumes of smoke rise during clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan, September 26, 2024. (Reuters)

The African Union’s Peace and Security Council has proposed a roadmap to resolve the war in Sudan.

A delegation from the council is visiting the interim Sudanese capital, Port Sudan, for the first time since the eruption of the war in the country in April 2023.

The delegation informed Sudanese officials that the African Union is seeking a ceasefire in line with a roadmap proposed by its Peace and Security Council. The details of the roadmap were not disclosed.

Sudanese officials, for their part, briefed the delegation on the conflict.

Meanwhile, US Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello told Asharq Al-Awsat that contacts are ongoing with the African Union over a mechanism to monitor the implementation of current and future agreements.

It is best to remain prepared, he added. The international community must assess the options to support the implementation of the cessation of hostilities.

Moreover, he noted that elements that support the ousted regime of President Omar al-Bashir are within the army and opposed to the democratic civilian rule in the country.

He accused them of seeking to prolong the war and returning to rule against the will of the people.

The envoy also said the conflict cannot be resolved through a military solution.

Over the months, the army has wasted opportunities to end the war through negotiations that could restore peace and civilian rule, he noted.

The latest escalation between the army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) will cost countless lives among civilians, warned Perriello.