JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel on Sunday indicted two Jewish extremists suspected in a July arson attack on a Palestinian home that killed a toddler and his parents – a case that has been unsolved for months and helped fuel the current wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence. According to them, the same day, Alaa Abu Jamal rammed his auto into pedestrians and then stabbed people, killing one.
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It was condemned across the Israeli political spectrum and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged “zero tolerance” in the fight to bring the assailants to justice.
ISRAELI forces demolished a Palestinian family’s home and sealed another in concrete yesterday in revenge for a recent spate of attacks.
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health stated on Friday that Israeli soldiers or settlers in 2015 shot and killed 179 Palestinians, including unarmed protesters, bystanders and alleged attackers.
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Reuveni and two minors were charged with another arson attack in Jerusalem over a year ago.
The suspects said that the attack was a form of vengeance after an Israeli settler was killed by Palestinians in the previous month.
In Bethlehem district, Israeli forces detain 17-year-old Ahmad Salti Thawabta., while further north, in Nablus district, Israeli forces detained Rami Khweiraand Ahmad Abed Rabbo, 20.
The attacker was identified as a 21-year-old Palestinian from the Bethlehem area.
That was up from 171 children at the end of September, before a wave of popular unrest swept the occupied Palestinian territory the following month. Most of the others have been killed in clashes with security forces. Referred to in Israel as “price-tag attacks”, such offences have usually been carried out in what the attackers say are reprisals for Palestinian violence against Israelis or government curbs on unauthorised building in the West Bank.
“This case took place months ago and during that time, unlike what the Israelis do when Palestinians are accused of violence, I didn’t see that they closed down the entire settlement from which these people came, Diana Buttu, a lawyer and former Palestinian negotiator, said”.
Nearly daily stabbings, car-rammings and shooting attacks by Palestinians have killed 21 Israelis and a US citizen since the start of October, raising fears of a wider escalation a decade after the last Palestinian uprising subsided.
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Israeli soldiers patrolling the West Bank will soon get new protection in the form of neck guards, an army official told The Times of Israel Monday.
