(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - The Judea Military Court on Tuesday convicted Ali Saada of the murders of Asher Palmer, 25, and his baby son, Yonatan, in 2011. Saada was also convicted of six further attempts to murder. According to the IDF, Saada and Waal al-Arjeh, who was sentenced to two life sentences in prison in July 2013, intentionally threw stones from a moving taxi, at least one of which went through the front windshield of Palmer's vehicle, causing him to lose control of the car that eventually overturned. Lawyer Adrian Agassi said the object thrown at the vehicle was the size of a block. "It was thrown from an oncoming vehicle that was traveling in the opposite direction. At that velocity, it was like shooting a bullet," Agassi said. Palmer's father Michael said that Asher and Yonatan's lives "were taken by people who did not know them...for the simple reason that they were Jews."
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