Israel probes video of Jewish extremists celebrating toddler death

Police were investigating a video that surfaced on social media and appeared to show a man beating one of the shot assailants with a pole, Jerusalem police spokesman Asi Aharoni told Army Radio.

The words “Revenge” and “Hello from the detainees of Zion” were daubed on the wall of the home attacked on Tuesday, an apparent reference to the suspects in the Duma arson investigation.

The video, said to have been taken three weeks ago, depicts attendees at the wedding dancing with makeshift Arab headdresses while holding knives that were waved menacingly at a photo of the Palestinian infant who was murdered by Jewish terrorists last summer.

Over the past decade, Israel has used its administrative detention policy against 3,761 people in the occupied territories and Israel, according to research by the Knesset’s state control committee.

“The shocking pictures that were broadcast this evening show the true face of a group that constitutes a danger to Israeli society and to the security of Israel”, Netanyahu said in a statement.

Israel’s Shin Bet security service arrested an unspecified number of Jewish suspects in connection with the arson attack and has reportedly been treating them in a similar manner to Palestinian terrorism suspects, which has elicited condemnation from their lawyers and supporters.

The footage shows guests dancing a traditional wedding dance, some of them armed with guns and knives.

Other politicians have condemned the video.

Nearly daily stabbings, shootings and car-rammings by Palestinians have killed 20 Israelis and a United States citizen since October.

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog said that the people at the wedding are “lunatics, lowlifes, you forgot what it means to be Jewish”.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has said Israel was determined to bring those responsible to trial, adding that he considered the arson “a Jewish terrorist act”. You disgrace your skullcap, your prayer shawl and the name of God. However, Shin Bet has yet to gather enough evidence concerning the attack on the Dawabshehs to charge the suspects, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. Whoever dances at a wedding and celebrates the murder of a sleeping baby is not Jewish and not Israeli.

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.

Reporting on the suspects’ identity is subject to a court gag order in Israel; however, the U.S. Jewish newspaper the Forward reported that one of the suspects holds both U.S. and Israeli citizenship.