The Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court convicts a 24-year-old Israeli woman of incitement to violence for making statements online in support of attacks on IDF soldiers, Palestinians and Arab Israelis.
Eliraz Fein, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, pleads guilty to inciting violence on “numerous” occasions, according to court documents.
The indictment says Fein had previously expressed “pride and happiness” at the 2014 murder of a Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir by Israeli extremists, and praised the torching of a Palestinian home in 2015, in which three members of the Dawabsha family were murdered, as “a proper and appropriate act.”
Eliraz Fine, an Israeli settler from the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, in court for suspected “inciting violence against soldiers” on May 7, 2014, at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court. (Meital Cohen/Flash90)
The court says Fein also praised hate crimes committed against Christians, and had advocated attacking, and even killing, IDF soldiers “under certain circumstances.”
A date has not yet been set for sentencing.
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