The military court in Nablus on Sunday convicted Mohammad Daoud of Kalkilya for the murder two years ago of Ofra Moses and her son Tal, residents of the West Bank settlement of Alfei Menashe.
Daoud also was found guilty of perpetrating seven other terrorist attacks. His sentence will be handed down Tuesday.
The two were killed April 11, 1987, when a firebomb struck the Moses family car on the road to Petach Tikva. Ofra and Tal Moses were trapped in the car and burned to death. Four others in the car escaped with first-degree burns.
Avraham Moses, the bereaved husband and one of those who was injured, left the courtroom in anger Sunday.
“It is not a matter of revenge that I think capital punishment is the right punishment,” he told reporters. “It is a matter of justice.”
The military prosecutor, Capt. Ronen Ketsef, said the prosecution refrained from demanding capital punishment and asked for only life imprisonment, not because of mercy, but for “other reasons.”
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