Four Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers in West Bank

A police statement did not say how many suspects were in custody.

Ali Dawabsha, aged 18 months, died in the attack. The couple’s four-year-old son was the sole survivor from the immediate family.

The home demolished on Wednesday was the residence of Ibrahim al-Akari, who carried out a car-ramming attack on November 5, 2014, killing two people, including a border police officer, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.

More than half of the Palestinians have been alleged assailants.

“They are exploiting the situation”, Khaled Fouda, the governor of Egypt’s South Sinai region, said in a recent TV interview, referring to the Israelis.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld denied there had been any abuses, saying the suspects were being held in accordance with the law.

Ahmed Dawabsheh’s grandmother Satira stands by his bed in the Tel Hashomer hospital near the city of Tel Aviv, on December 3.

Erdan said that authorities have been unable to charge the suspects due to a lack of evidence and because they are “very, very difficult” to crack.

Two Israeli soldiers sustained minor injuries when a Palestinian assailant hit them with his auto near the West Bank village of Silwad.

The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health confirmed that a Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli military forces near the village, which is located adjacent to the illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish. Thursday’s partial lift on the gag-order came one day after the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, criticized Israel for the “slow progress” in investigating the arson.

“Amidst the current escalation of violence, it is essential that all firmly and consistently reject terrorism and act decisively to stop hatred and incitement”, the United Nations official, Nickolay Mladenov, said. The Israeli government pledged to hunt down and punish those responsible.

Young Jewish men from wildcat settlement outposts in the West Bank and known as the “hilltop youth” have been blamed for violence and vandalism targeting Palestinians, Christian holy sites and even Israeli military property.

The attacks were the latest in more than two months of “lone wolf” assaults that have challenged Israel’s control over the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem.