Israel arrests suspects in arson attack on Palestinian home

Relatives of a Palestinian couple killed with their toddler in a July arson attack said Friday they have no faith in Israeli pledges of justice, despite arrests of Jewish suspects.

There have been about a dozen stabbings in the city, which have injured Israelis, with the attackers killed or wounded.

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahranot reported that the Israeli police shot an Israeli policewoman by mistake on the scene.

Since early October, the Israeli army is holding around 40 bodies of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army and police in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and refuse to hand them over to the Palestinian side.

Donald Trump said that if he is elected President, he will know within 6 months whether he can achieve an elusive peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the world’s most vexing challenges. The rest died in clashes with security forces.

Marco Rubio, said at the same forum that those calling for more sacrifices from Israel “are dead wrong, and they don’t understand the enduring bond between Israel and America”. At least 101 Palestinians have been killed, including 66 said by Israel to be attackers.

The July 31 attack in Duma, a village outside Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, ignited smoldering Palestinian anger over a frozen peace process and illegal Jewish settlement building in land Palestinians claim for a future state.

An Israeli was stabbed by a Palestinian attacker late Thursday evening near the Tel Rumeida outpost in Hebron.

It is unusual for Palestinian security agents to be implicated in such attacks.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli troops opened fire and killed a Palestinian man near the city of Ramallah on the same day after accusing him of being behind a stabbing attack that wounded an Israeli.

The incidents come after a recent spate of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories following Israeli incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Many suspect the crime was a “price-tag” attack by Jewish settlers because the assailants sprayed Hebrew graffiti on the home, including the word “revenge”.

“A gunman stopped at a checkpoint near Hizmeh, exited his vehicle and shot forces at the site”, an army statement said. The Palestinian leadership has blamed frustration rooted in decades of Israeli occupation.