Israeli soldier knifed on West Bank, Arab attacker killed

On Sunday, Israel indicted two Jewish extremists for the July deaths of a family of Palestinians that died in an arson attack on their home, CBS Newsreports.

Since the current round of Israeli-Palestinian violence erupted in mid-September, at least 131 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire.

His father told the Palestinian Ma’an news agency that his family of eight were ordered to evacuate their first-floor flat while troops demolished the interior walls.

Gopstein is the head of the notorious extremist Israeli Jewish group of Lehava, which is responsible for insulting and harassing monks and nuns in the occupied Palestinian holy city.

The Israeli authorities have referred to their actions as Jewish terrorism, with leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, condemning the Duma attack.

Meanwhile, an Israeli woman soldier was shot and slightly wounded in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday, rescue services said.

The attack on July 31 killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents Saad and Riham.

In Bethlehem district, Israeli forces detain 17-year-old Ahmad Salti Thawabta., while further north, in Nablus district, Israeli forces detained Rami Khweiraand Ahmad Abed Rabbo, 20. Many Palestinians believe that the government isn’t doing enough to bring these kinds of attacks to justice. One of the men named in the statement, Meir Ettinger, a grandson of the late ultranationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane, has been held in administrative detention since August.

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.

The Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv was also the scene of a deadly attack in October in which three were killed, including a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen.

In the early stages of the unrest, PA security forces allowed crowds to approach checkpoints, where they protested and clashed with Israeli security forces.

Israel says the violence is being fanned by a Palestinian campaign of lies and incitement. Three members of a family of Palestinians living in Duma, a village in the West Bank, were killed in their home after it was firebombed in the night while they slept.