Palmer Murderer Sentenced to Life
A Palestinian terrorist was sentenced to a double life sentence and an additional 58 years for killing Asher Palmer, 25, and his infant son, Yonatan, with a rock he threw at their vehicle in September 2011, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday.
An Israeli military court handed down the sentence on Waal al-Arjeh, which found that Arjeh had intentionally caused the deaths. The stone, hurled from a moving taxi at Palmer’s vehicle, shattered the windshield and caused the car to overturn.
The Palmer family’s lawyer Adrian Agassi noted that the court set a legal precedent. “It is the first time that a military court has handed a verdict of murder for rock-throwing,” said Agassi, who was a military judge for 10 years before entering private practice. “I cannot remember a verdict like this.”
Agassi said he plans to ask the court for 10 million shekels in compensation at a future hearing.
He predicted that Arjeh would appeal the verdict. “But I do not see that this ruling will be overturned.”
“This is not just a personal win for Palmer’s family,” Agassi said, since severe punishments like this will serve as a deterrent for others.
“This was nothing less than terrorism and we have to fight back with every legal method we can,” he said.
This article appeared in print on page D38 of edition of Hamodia.
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