Abed Dawiat (Mahmoud Abed Rabbo Doiat), 19 at the time of the crime, was convicted of manslaughter for throwing rocks that resulted in death. It was the longest sentence every given by an Israeli court for a stoning attack. Dawiat claimed that as he threw the rocks that killed Levlovich, he was wearing a Hamas flag given to him at a demonstration in which he participated protesting Israel's banning of the activist group Murabitat from the Temple Mount. The signing of an order declaring the Murabitat illegal by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon on 8 September 2015 is regarded as sparking the 2015-2016 wave of violence in Israeli-Palestinian conflict.