Saleh Zier has been sentenced to 5 years’ hard labour and Mohammed Khader and Mohammed Assad to 3 years’ imprisonment each, being found guilty of having taken part in the attack on the house of the Jewish colonist Broza, in the Jewish colony of Motza, near Jerusalem, during the riots of August 1929.
If the Broza family had not been armed they would have shared the fate of the Macleff family in the same colony, who were massacred, Judge Plunkett said in passing sentence. There were altogether 14 Arabs accused of being concerned in the attack, but the other 11 were discharged on the ground that there was not sufficient evidence to prove their guilt.
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