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Israel charges two over arson attack that killed Palestinian family
They come more than five months after the pre-dawn attack on the Dawabsha family home in the West Bank village of Duma that killed 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha, and fatally wounded his parents. The unsolved nature of the case helped fuel the current wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Many have already charged that the government has taken an unreasonable amount of time in seeking the indictments in comparison to how Palestinian cases are handled. Israel has authorized a series of steps, including holding several suspects without charge – a tactic typically used against Palestinian militants – to crack the case.
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Shin Bet denies using any illegal methods, and has stressed that the entire investigation was conducted under the supervision of attorney general Yehuda Weinstein.
In a video released hours before their son was charged, Reuven and Nurit Ben-Uliel said they were shocked at the allegations against their son and believed him to be innocent.
Two other Israelis, including a minor, were charged for implication in “other terrorist acts”.
The long-awaited indictment follows months of investigations into Jewish extremists operating in the West Bank following an incident which sparked worldwide outrage.
“Sometimes we feel fed up of just damaging properties, so we just want to burn houses with the residents inside them”, one member, investigated by Shin Bet, was quoted as saying.
The would-be attacker fled the scene after attempting to stab an Israeli man waiting at the bus stop, and was caught by Israeli security forces, Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said in a tweet.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday ordered an extensive operation for finding guns held by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The attack on July 31 killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents Saad and Riham. 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 Dawabshe home and another residence.
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Graffiti left at the site, witness reports and the proximity of Israeli settlements led suspicions to fall immediately on Jewish extremists. His father, Reuven, is the rabbi of the West Bank settlement of Karmei Zur, where he grew up.