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Man convicted by US court of murdering six-year old Palestinian boy in hate crime

A US jury convicted on Friday an Illinois man over the 2023 murder of a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy and the wounding of his mother in a hate crime.

Joseph Czuba, 73, was charged in the murder of Wadea al-Fayoume and injuring his mother Hanan Shaheen on 14 October, 2023, near Chicago. Prosecutors said the boy and his mother were targeted because they were Palestinian after the 7 October attacks on southern Israel.