Mother of Palestinian Baby Killed in Arson Attack Dies

She had third-degree burns on 90% of her body caused by the arson attack which was carried out with Molotov cocktails launched against the family home’s bedroom in the village of Duma.

Her husband, Sa’ad, 32, suffered similar wounds and succumbed to his injuries on August 8 at Israel’s Soroka Hospital, according to Arutz Sheva.

“Hamas, therefore, must act unilaterally in this regard”, it added.

Riham Dawabsheh, the mother of 18-month-old toddler Ali Dawabsheh who was burned to death in an Israeli settler arson attack, on Saturday was announced clinically dead due to her injuries.

Al-Ayyam said that Dawabsheh’s last surviving son, four-year-old Ahmed, will remain in hospital for a couple of months, where he is scheduled to undergo several surgeries.

The attack drew widespread condemnation and Israel pledged to get tougher on Jewish extremists in the West Bank suspected in attacks on Palestinians and their property.

As friends and family gathered on Monday at the home of Reham’s mother-in-law before her burial, the atmosphere was one of shock and despair.

Around 60 former pupils turned up at her funeral, describing her as a “beautiful teacher” who was always smiling and enouraging her students.

“Reham Dawabsheh died in the night”, a spokesperson for the Tel Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv said, where she was admitted with burns covering 80 percent of her body.

They began at a school renamed after her son and continued to a nearby cemetery.

“The assassination of the Dawabsha family reflects the clear connection between hate speech, settlement expansion and the impunity granted to Israel by the global community”, he said.

Some 13,000 Palestinian structures in the West Bank are now under Israeli demolition orders, leaving residents and homes “in a state of chronic uncertainty and threat”, the United Nations said on Monday.

Clashes between Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Palestinians living in the occupied territory are not uncommon, although deaths are rare.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement Monday expressing his condolences and saying “security forces are doing their utmost to apprehend the assailants and bring them to justice”.

A number of alleged Jewish extremists have been arrested since the attack, including three placed under administrative detention, but neither the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) nor the Israel Police have said if any are suspected of being involved in the attack.

For all the natural grief over the death, family members and mourners voiced an equally powerful emotion – anger, aimed at the Israeli authorities for failing to arrest the culprits.