29 Mar 2024
Sunday 18 October 2015 - 17:53
Story Code : 174123

Israeli settlers torch Palestinian homes, burn baby to death

Israeli settlers torch Palestinian homes, burn baby to death
A Palestinian baby has burned to death after Israeli settlers set fire to homes in the occupied West Bank.

Two homes were set alight in an arson attack by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Duma, south of Nablus, in the early hours of Friday. A large fire broke out after settlers threw firebombs and Molotov cocktails into the Palestinian houses.

Local residents and witnesses identified the infant killed in the attack as 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="650"] Two homes were set alight in an arson attack by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Duma, south of Nablus, in the early hours of July 31, 2015.[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="650"] Two homes were set alight in an arson attack by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Duma, south of Nablus, in the early hours of July 31, 2015.[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="650"] Two homes were set alight in an arson attack by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Duma, south of Nablus, in the early hours of July 31, 2015.[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="650"] Two homes were set alight in an arson attack by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Duma, south of Nablus, in the early hours of July 31, 2015.[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="650"] Two homes were set alight in an arson attack by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Duma, south of Nablus, in the early hours of July 31, 2015.[/caption]

Palestinian medical sources said the childs parents, as well as his four-year-old brother, were all injured and rushed to a hospital in Nablus.

The two homes were set ablaze by settlers who came from the nearby settlement of Maakeg Efraim.

According to local residents' accounts, the parents woke up and tried to remove their children from the house, but were unable to save their youngest son. The other torched house was empty at the time.

Media reports indicate that Hebrew graffiti was found near the arson scene, reading "revenge" and "long live the Messiah." The settlers also wrote 'price tag' and drew a Star of David on the walls of the homes.

In a statement issued hours after the incident, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) condemned the brutal assassination of the Palestinian infant, stressing that the regime in Tel Aviv bears full responsibility for the arson attack.

This is a direct consequence of decades of impunity given by the Israeli regime to the extremist settlers who have perpetrated acts of terrorism, said PLO official Saeb Erekat in the statement.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="650"] A Star of David and the Hebrew word "Revenge" are spray-painted on the walls of a Palestinian home which was burned down by Israeli settlers on July 31, 2015 in the Palestinian village of Duma, near Nablus[/caption]

Israeli settlers have in recent years carried out various attacks which involved arson and graffiti on Palestinian property in the West Bank and al-Quds (Jerusalem) under the price tag slogan.

Price tag attacks are acts of vandalism and violence against Palestinians and their properties as well as Islamic holy sites.

Israeli vandals also frequently launch price tag attacks against Palestinian fields in the occupied West Bank, uprooting dozens of olive trees.

More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israels occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.

The UN and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.

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