The Duma arson attack killed three members of a Palestinian family and led to a rare terrorism conviction of an Israeli settler.
Key Facts
- Date of attack
- 31 July 2015
- Victims killed
- 3 (Ali Dawabsheh, 18 months old, and both parents)
- Perpetrator convicted
- Amiram Ben-Uliel, age 21 at indictment
- Conviction year
- 2020
- Sentence imposed
- Life imprisonment
- Charges included
- 3 counts murder, 2 attempted murder, 3 arson, racially motivated crime
By the Numbers
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
Israeli settlers targeted a Palestinian family in the village of Duma in what prosecutors later established was a racially motivated terrorist act. The attackers were affiliated with extremist settler networks and planned the assault with at least one other minor co-conspirator.
On 31 July 2015, settlers firebombed the Dawabsheh family home in Duma. Eighteen-month-old Ali Dawabsheh was burned alive; his mother and father both succumbed to their injuries within weeks, resulting in three deaths and the destruction of the family home.
Amiram Ben-Uliel was indicted in January 2016 and convicted in 2020 on three counts of murder, two of attempted murder, and arson as part of a terrorist act. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, marking one of the few cases in which an Israeli settler was convicted of terrorism against Palestinians.