Palestinian driver rams Israeli soldiers, shot dead

Four Israelis were wounded in three separate attacks on Friday.

While recent violence has focused on the West Bank – where the global community considers all Jewish settlements illegal – seven people were injured in the Gaza Strip coastal enclave on Friday, medical sources said.

The arson attack occurred in July in the West Bank village of Duma.

It said in a statement that the detainees were being questioned over the July 31 firebombing in the West Bank village of Duma, located near the Jordan Valley and close to wildcat Jewish settlements.

On 19 October the Israeli army ordered Ganiram to remain under house arrest in Hebron, a city in the occupied West Bank. Ali’s four-year-old brother Ahmed survived with serious injuries.

The Hebrew words “Revenge” and “Long live the king messiah” were spray-painted on walls at the site of the attack, alongside a Star of David. Israel’s defense minister said this month that Jewish extremists were involved but that there was not enough evidence to prosecute.

Israeli leaders pledged after the Dawabsheh toddler’s death to crack down on violent far-right Jewish groups, and the government made a decision to start detaining without trial Israeli citizens suspected of political violence against Palestinians.

A gag order was placed on the investigation following the arrests earlier this week, but a police spokesperson confirmed on Thursday that two young men had been arrested.

The UN had immediately condemned the attack and even the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, repeatedly asked from the Israeli authorities to do more in delivering justice.

The violence has included Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming attacks.

That attack came just hours after another some 20 kilometres (12 miles) away in which a Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier before being shot dead.

Israeli forces have killed 98 Palestinians, of whom 59 were identified by Israel as assailants or caught on camera carrying out assaults, while most others were killed in clashes with police or the military.

The soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs, many of which were fired directly into Palestinian homes where women and children had sheltered to escape the gas in the streets.

It is unusual for Palestinian security agents to be implicated in such attacks.