Ali’s 4-year-old brother Ahmad survived.
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In October, Israel began withholding the bodies of suspected attackers as a tactic to crack down on violence.
Security forces began sweeps of Herzliya after his vehicle was found abandoned in the town.
Relatives of the suspects, meanwhile, accused the Shin Bet of torture. “I know he was at home that night and that he didn’t do anything”, he said. In that case, the attacker was apprehended by police a short time after the assault. On the night of the attack, however, the minor involved allegedly did not show up and Ben-Uliel went alone to the village, lobbing two Molotov cocktails at the Dawabsheh home and another residence. Another minor was charged in a series of incidents of vandalism and arson.
Christians believe the church on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee is where Jesus performed the miracle of loaves and fishes.
The long-awaited indictment follows months of investigations into a web of Jewish extremists operating in the West Bank.
However, Palestinians claimed that Israeli authorities did not take the necessary steps to resolve the case and a feeling of “skewed justice” was present among Palestinians who argued that the law was not being applied to Israeli militants the same way as Palestinian militants.
Israel arrested four Jewish men suspected of being among them.
“This trial is a parody”, Mohammad Dawabsha, 68, said.
“We will fight against them firmly and with all means and tools at our disposal”, he added.
The Dawabsha family were sleeping in their home when it was firebombed early on 31 July, and daubed with slogans in Hebrew, including the word “revenge”.
The Yesha council, an umbrella group of West Bank settlements, commended Sunday’s indictment and said the suspects do not represent it.
“They would not have launched an investigation were it not for the worldwide pressure on them” he said accusing the government of effectively “support(ing) the terrorism conducted by (West Bank) settlers against our people”.
According to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), there were 369 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians from January 2015 to July 27, averaging more than 12 each week.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the victim was a 34-year-old man with light wounds to his face and arms.
The shooting happened near a disputed holy site in the heart of Hebron’s Old City, which is known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque and to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs.
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Palestine joined the ICC in April and already handed over two files documenting alleged Israeli crimes during 2014 Israeli Operation Protective Edge as well as Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
