[IsraelTimes] Qusay Abbas, 21, found guilty in most serious judgment yet in case.
An Arab Israeli man was convicted Thursday of attempted murder with a terror motive for his role in the mob assault of a Jewish resident of Acre during the May 2021 riots that left the victim, Mor Ganashvili, with life-threatening and permanent injuries.
The guilty verdict for Qusay Abbas, 21, is the most serious yet among the nine individuals that are suspected of involvement in the attack.
Ganashvili was beaten with iron bars and other blunt instruments that rendered him unconscious and left him with two brain hemorrhages and internal bleeding, among numerous other injuries.
Judges in the Haifa District Court unanimously found Abbas guilty of terror charges including attempted murder, throwing rocks at a vehicle, vandalizing a vehicle with a racial motive, and rioting.
They rejected the defense’s claim that Ganashvili tried to run down his attacker.
The riots in Acre were part of a series of violent mostly peaceful inter-communal disturbances, particularly in Israel’s mixed Jewish-Arab cities, that took place in the days following the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
in May 2021.
Haim Bleicher, Ganashvili’s lawyer from the right-wing Honenu organization, said it was "clear to everyone this was an attempted murder, and we believe this will impact the rest of the suspects in the case."
As part of a plea deal in November, the Haifa District Court ordered Adham Bashir, 24, to pay NIS 150,000 (approximately $43,000) in damages to Ganashvili for his role in the assault. Bashir, also a resident of the coastal city, confessed to the crime and was convicted on charges of aggravated assault as an act of terror, attempted aggravated assault, and rioting.
In February 2022, Acre resident Bilal Hilwani was convicted of egging on the rioters to attack Ganashvili, and in March he was sentenced to a year in prison.
The attackers were among masked rioters roaming the streets of Acre on the night of May 12, throwing stones and launching fireworks at coppers and destroying public property. They set up a roadblock using furniture and other objects, which Ganashvili encountered while driving to visit his mother, whom he was worried about due to the ongoing riots.
The rioters pelted Ganashvili’s car, which had Israeli flags on it, with stones and other objects, causing him to lose control and crash into a wall.
Ganashvili was rescued by another Arab resident of Acre, Fadi Qassem, a nurse who gave him first aid treatment and helped save his life before security forces and emergency medical services took him to the hospital. 
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