Israelis charged over deadly arson attack on Palestinian family

On October 10, 16-year-old Badran stabbed two ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem before being shot dead, while Quneibi was shot dead on October 30 after stabbing an Israeli.

Baha Elayyan opened fire on passengers on a bus, killing three people.

Police and special forces are still searching for the accused shooter in that attack, Nashat Milhem, an Arab from northern Israel who is considered to be armed and unsafe.

Israel came under heavy pressure to try those responsible, with rights groups questioning the delay in the case and contrasting it to the swift reaction often following Palestinian attacks.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November vowed to expedite punitive house demolitions in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which he said were “one of the most efficient tools” in discouraging Palestinian attacks. On the same day, another attacker, Alaa Abu Jamal, rammed his auto into pedestrians and then stabbed people, killing one, according to AP.

Israeli soldiers walk in the West Bank city of Hebron, where children as young as 13 were detained this morning.

Two other potential attacks were thwarted on Monday.

Rafat Sub Leban, advocacy coordinator at Addameer, called on Israel to release the rest of the bodies, labeling it a “form of collective punishment”.

Israel’s imposition in August of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the holy al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), the third holiest site in Islam, has triggered a wave of tensions in West Bank and Gaza.

Violence since the start of October has claimed the lives of 140 on the Palestinian side, as well as 22 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean.

A Palestinian man’s apparent plan to stab Israelis in Jerusalem Sunday was unwittingly obstructed when his knife bent upon stabbing his victim. They say he planned the attack with another person, a minor, but when that unnamed suspect failed to show up at a designated rendezvous point, Ben Uliel carried out the attack alone.

Abu Asab added that the Jerusalem central court had also ordered each of the boys’ families to pay a bail of 5,000 shekels and sign a bail of 10,000 shekels.