Muhammad Abu Khdeir's Killer Dies in Prison at 42
Yosef Haim Ben-David, the man convicted of murdering Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir in 2014, has died in prison. He was 42 years old. Ben-David was serving a life sentence for the brutal killing, which involved the abduction and burning of the 16-year-old from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina.
Ben-David was found guilty of the murder in 2016, along with accomplices who received lesser sentences. The murder was widely seen as a revenge attack following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers by Hamas militants in the West Bank.
The circumstances surrounding Ben-David's death in prison are not immediately clear, but it marks the end of a highly publicized and controversial case that inflamed tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.
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