Israel retaliates for rocket fire from Gaza with airstrike

Israeli media reported signs of improvement in Ahmed’s condition, although his life remained in danger.

An injured Palestinian child waits to receive treatment at the Najjar hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, August 6, 2015.

The Shin Bet could not immediately be reached for comment on Monday.

The family’s small brick and cement home in Duma was gutted by the fire and a Jewish Star of David spray-painted on a wall along with the words “revenge” and “long live the Messiah”. Many suspect radicalized Jewish teens have been behind those attacks on Palestinian homes, agriculture and livestock, as well as mosques, churches and even Israeli schools and military bases.

“This is an achievement for the Palestinian sports family and is a first step towards a unified Palestinian league and cup tournament”, Haniyeh told Reuters at a lavish reception at a Gaza hotel for the West Bank visitors.

“They say we the Palestinian are terrorists, but no, they-the Israelis-are the terrorists”, Selman continued.

The United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, said he was deeply saddened to learn that Saad Dawabsheh had died and expressed his condolences to his relatives, friends and the community.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack an act of terrorism and has said every effort will be made to catch the culprits.

A return leg is to be played in Hebron in the West Bank on Sunday.

Don Seeman, a professor of religion at Emory University in Atlanta, said the Jewish extremists responsible for the attacks are a “loose federation” and not a structured organization.

Saad Dawabshe was taken to the Israeli hospital Soroka with third-degree burns to greater than 80% of his physique.

“Hamas must fulfill its responsibilities or face the consequences”, an army statement said.

The severely burned father of a Palestinian toddler who was killed in an arson attack died of his wounds early Saturday, and thousands of Palestinians came to bury him in this West Bank village gripped by grief, anger, and fear.

Most of the inmates were political prisoners and was affiliated with the Fatah group, a major Palestinian political party that began in 1965 as the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, which rules the occupied West Bank.