Israelis charged over fatal West Bank family arson attack

The attack on July 31 killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents Saad and Riham. Another son, Ahmed, who was four at the time of the attack, is still being treated for his wounds.

A spokesman for Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service said a 34-year-old man was taken to hospital with stab wounds to his face and hand.

According to a senior official from Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security agency who was quoted by Israeli radio, the suspects belong to a “terrorist organization” that does not recognize the state of Israel and which calls for the establishment of a Jewish “kingdom” based on the provisions of Jewish scripture.

Lawyers for some of those detained over the arson attack allege their clients were tortured to extract confessions but this has been denied by the Israeli authorities.

“We will make sure, as we did at the beginning, with our request to lift the gag order, to bring to the knowledge of the public everything that happened in this investigation”, Hai Haber, a lawyer representing one of the suspects, told Israel Radio. “We know there’s no significant external evidence linking the suspects to this incident”.

Palestinian boys look into the house of Bahaa Allyan, who was shot dead after he and an accomplice reportedly boarded a bus and shot and stabbed people at a Jerusalem in October a year ago, after it was partially demolished by Israeli forces in the east Jerusalem Palestinian neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber on January 4, 2016.

Palestine joined the ICC in April and already handed over two files documenting alleged Israeli crimes during 2014 Israeli Operation Protective Edge as well as Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Nasser Dawabsheh, Saad’s brother, said the indictments were not enough.

“We are questioning the capability and competence of Israeli law”.

Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers over the past three and a half months have killed 21 Israelis, mostly in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks.

Tears: Friday night’s gunman is believed to be a man named Nashat Milhem from the Arab village of Arara, in northern Israel.

Today’s shootings come amid a wave of violence since the beginning of October a year ago that has killed 138 Palestinians and 20 Israelis.

Israel says the violence is being fanned by a Palestinian campaign of lies and incitement. She was moderately wounded and troops were searching for the shooter.