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The incident comes as tensions between Israelis and Palestinians are high after the torching of a Palestinian home in the West Bank last week by suspected Jewish extremists that killed a Palestinian toddler and severely wounded his parents and 4-year-old brother.

Pitella said the use by Israel of administrative detention orders – which allow for renewable six-month periods of detention without trial – not only against Palestinians but also against extremist Jews “doesn’t help”.

The attack prompted pledges by Israel’s government to get tougher on Jewish vigilantes who have repeatedly attacked Palestinians over the years.

“On Tu B’Av, the festival of love, when around us we are seeing more and more displays of hatred and violence that make us all cringe, we must love and respect each other”, he wrote, according to Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz. “From what we’ve seen...

The attack on the Dawabsheh home, coupled with an ultra-Orthodox Jew’s fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old girl at a gay pride parade the previous day, sparked outrage in Israel and several large-scale anti-violence demonstrations. As opposed to impression that officials are...

Palestinian ambassador to Jordan, Atallah Khairi, told Jordanian newspaper al-Ghad that the decision was taken following an arson attack by suspected Jewish settlers which killed Palestinian infant Ali Dawabsha and critically injured his father, mother and four-year-old brother.

A Palestinian health official said at least four Palestinians from the same family were killed and 13 people were wounded in the Gaza Strip Thursday by an explosion of Israeli military ordnance left over from last summer’s war.

The Palestinian Football Federation has postponed the second leg of the Palestine Cup final, between the champions of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, after Israel denied entry permits to some of the Gaza players, sport officials said.

Ali’s parents and a four-year-old brother were also injured in the attack.

Earlier Thursday, a Palestinian health official said at least four Palestinians from the same family were killed and 13 people were injured in the Gaza Strip by an explosion of Israeli military ordnance left over from last summer’s war.

Three Israeli soldiers were hurt – two of them seriously – after a Palestinian motorist careered into them at a junction in the West Bank on Thursday just a few miles from where suspected Jewish settlers carried out a deadly arson attack nearly a week ago. Ali’s...

Tensions are still tense in Palestine over the death of an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler in an arson attack suspected to be carried out by Jewish extremists on Friday.

As of June, the number of individuals held in Israeli jails under administrative detention – a practice that allows the holding of terrorism suspects without charges or trial – included 370 Palestinians and two foreigners, but not a single Israeli Jew, according to...

Thousands of Israeli people took to the streets over the weekend to warn against a radicalised and violent fringe growing within the country, following the arson attack on a Palestinian family home in the West Bank by extremists and the stabbing of six people at a Jerusalem Gay...

Authorities are much more lenient toward Jewish extremists than they are toward Palestinians suspected of militant activity, critics say.