Israeli military demolishes, seals off attackers’ homes

Islam, like Judaism, requires swift burial of the dead. “I know he was at home that night and that he didn’t do anything”, he said. The site, Islam’s holiest outside Saudi Arabia, is also revered by many Jews as a vestige of their biblical temples. The Palestinians say it is rooted in frustrations stemming from almost five decades of Israeli occupation.

The attack in Duma village and ensuing Israeli investigation laid bare fissures in Netanyahu’s coalition government where one ultra-nationalist partner voiced misgivings about the handling of Jewish suspects.

The issue has become a sore point with Palestinians.

Apparently, Ben-Uliel was indicted after he admitted to the attack, saying that he sprayed graffiti on the Palestinian family’s home before throwing a petrol bomb through a bedroom window. Two of them are also minors.

According to the United Nations, 19 homes of families and neighbours of Palestinian attackers were destroyed by Israel a year ago.

But an Israeli official familiar said the overall policy has been aimed at “de-escalation”. Another 23 were implicated in attacks, it said.

Netanyahu called the video “shocking” and said it showed “the true face of a group that constitutes a danger to Israeli society and to the security of Israel”. On Friday the Israeli military transferred nearly two dozen bodies of Palest…

Some 500 Jewish settlers live under tight guard among around 200,000 Palestinians in the southern West Bank city, where several anti-Israel attacks have been carried out in the past weeks.

“We will not allow Jewish terrorists to harm the lives of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria”, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said in a statement. A second, underaged defendant, whose name was not released for publication, was charged as Ben-Oliel’s accessory in the Duma arson, which killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents, Saad and Riham.

Police say Abbassi was shot after he threw a firebomb at Israeli forces. Nasser Dawabshe, Saad Dawabshe’s brother, told The Washington Post. “It was a big relief to bury him”.

One attacker, a Palestinian named Bahaa Elayan, had opened fire on passengers on a bus in October, killing three people.

Two other potential attacks were thwarted on Monday. But Elayan, 60, said he believed the demolition was retribution for his activities. “Now people have been in the streets for 85 days”.