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Video celebrating Palestinian baby’s death inflames Israel debate on Jewish

Reporting on the suspects’ identity is subject to a court gag order in Israel; however, the U.S. Jewish newspaper the Forward reported that one of the suspects holds both U.S. and Israeli citizenship.

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The toddler’s grandfather, Mohammad Hamoud, learned about the video… and was at a loss for words.


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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the video “horrifying”, saying it showed “the real face of a group that represents a danger to Israeli society and Israeli security”.


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Later, another man armed with a screwdriver is said to have tried to attack a group of soldiers near the West Bank city of Hebron.

He said that obtaining a confession from Israeli suspects may be challenging for the security forces because the suspects are more familiar with the system and more aware of their legal rights, compared to the Palestinians. At least 125 Palestinians have died by Israeli fire in the same period, of whom 86 Israel says were attacking or attempting to attack Israelis.

Israeli authorities said that three Palestinians were killed after they carried out or attempted to carry out attacks against Israelis across the West Bank.

– Israeli police say a Palestinian stabbed two Israeli security guards in the West Bank before being shot and killed. The firebombing killed a Palestinian couple and their 18-month-old son.

Even settler politicians like Uri Ariel and Betzalel Smotrich, who had previously downplayed the threat of Jewish terrorism, condemned the clip.

Three Israelis were injured and three of their assailants killed in three separate terror attacks in the West Bank.

Israeli media reported that the groom at the wedding has been questioned about acts of “Jewish terrorism”, and others at the wedding were friends or relatives of suspects arrested in connection with the attack, the Agence France-Presse news agency reported.

Zayed was the fourth Palestinian from the camp to be killed by Israeli forces in the last 24 hours.

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, the recipient of death threats from extremist Israelis after denouncing violence against Palestinians in the wake of the attack on the Dawabshe house, said the recording was a “sickening video”. A spokeswoman for Shaare Zedek Medical Center said a third person with gunshot wounds had also died.

The Shin Bet, in a rare public response, denied on Thursday it had tortured any of the suspects and said such “lies” were being disseminated in an effort to undermine the investigation.

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Israeli police later announced they were investigating people appearing in the video for “numerous and serious offences”, including for being careless with their weapons.

Medics and relatives of 23-year-old Bilal Zayed who was killed during clashes with Israeli forces trying to raid the Qalandiya refugee camp near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank bid farewell to the victim at the camp