The Lod-Central District Court found on Monday that an extremist settler youth committed acts of nationalist-motivated manslaughter, aggravated stone throwing at a vehicle, and deliberately damaging a vehicle, all as acts of terror, over a 2018 stone throwing attack he carried out in which Aisha Rabi, a Palestinian mother of eight, was killed when the rock he threw struck her in the head as she was driving.

Rabi’s killing generated outrage in Israel and internationally at the time, with diplomats from the US, UN and beyond decrying the attack and urging Israeli authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Monday’s verdict comes amid an unprecedented wave of extremist settler violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. Six Palestinians have been shot dead by settlers in March alone.

Although it was reported on Monday that the court had found the youth did commit at least some of the acts he was accused of in the indictment, it was not known which specific offenses those were, or whether he was found to have committed them as acts of terrorism.

Because the individual, a resident of the Benjamin region in the West Bank, was a 16-year old minor at the time, he is not technically convicted but rather found to have committed the crimes he is accused of.

The court issued its ruling on........

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