Israel Indicts Two Jewish Terrorists Over Palestinian Arson Attack

The Israeli soldier is said to have been seriously injured.

The Greek crew did not initially understand the cause of the dispute, Maariv newspaper reported, and continued with preparations as the two passengers from East Jerusalem were bombarded with accusations.

According to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), there were 369 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians from January 2015 to July 27, averaging more than 12 each week.

In the latest violence, two Israeli soldiers, one a woman, were wounded on Sunday in separate shootings in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron, the army said.

On Monday morning, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) troops entered Jabel Mukaber, the East Jerusalem neighborhood where the attackers’ homes were located.

The arson attack followed days of tensions over West Bank settlements, with rightwing groups opposing the demolition of two buildings under construction that the Israeli High Court said were illegal. Most of the others have been killed in clashes with security forces. Two other Israelis, including a minor, were charged for implication in “other terrorist acts”. According to the indictment, he made a decision to commit the arson in retaliation for the July murder of Malachai Rosenfeld, not far from Duma. But his grandparents, whom AFP met at home next to their son’s torched house in Duma, said they did not believe in “unfair Israeli justice”.

The extremists are part of the so-called “hilltop youth”, a leaderless group of young people who set up unauthorised outposts, usually clusters of trailers, on West Bank hilltops – land the Palestinians claim for their hoped-for state. The attacker had attempted to stab police on Haim Bar-Lev Street in Jerusalem near the Old City and then tried to run away.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that there would be “zero tolerance” in the quest to bring to justice those responsible for the the deaths of baby Ali and his parents.

Israeli forces or armed civilians have killed at least 132 Palestinians 82 of whom authorities described as assailants.

The society said that Israeli forces detained 17-year-old Ibrahim Safi Sawfta from Tubas district, and three men in Jenin identified as Ishaq Abd al-Rahman Jarbou, 22, Nuriddin Muhammad al-Sadi, 20, and Mahmoud Muhammad Awartani, 33.