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Dawabsha family, july 31 2015 burned by settlers |
7 sept 2015
An archive photo from January 2012 showing protesters rallying against the arrests of eight right-wing activists, including Meir Ettinger, whose image is on the poster on the right.
Israeli security services have cracked other cases involving arson attacks by Jewish extremists, but those who set fire to a home in Duma, killing a baby and his parents, are apparently still at large.
The death of Reham Dawabsheh, a little over a month after the terror attack in which her baby, Ali, and her husband, Saad, were killed has not elicited the same sense of shock on the part of the Israeli public as did the initial news of the arson attack on the family’s home in the West Bank village of Duma in late July.
True, the country’s leadership has issued a new series of condemnations of what seems, according to all indications, to have been a murderous act of terror committed by Jewish terrorists. But as of now, even with just one member of the family, four-year-old Ahmed, left alive, no progress has been reported in the investigation itself, which is being conducted by the Shin Bet security service unit that deals with Jewish suspects, assisted by the Israel Police. As far as we know, the murderers are still at large.
Coincidently or not, shortly after Dawabsheh died, a gag order was lifted Monday on a report that the Shin Bet had recently arrested two extreme right-wing activists for a similar act of arson in a Bedouin community not far from the place of the murder northeast of Ramallah. The two, who have been indicted, are 18-year-old Avraham Gafni, and an unnamed 16-year old, both residents of an outpost called Givat Habaladim, in the Binyamin region of the West Bank. The Shin Bet has already earmarked the outpost as one of the key places where Jewish extremists are organizing — and as the residence of some of those allegedly involved in the murder of the Dawabsheh family.
According to the indictment, Gafni and the minor set fire to a tent in which a large quantity of equipment was stored, but no one was sleeping there on the night of the fire. The Bedouin family whose property was burned said that the week before people had been sleeping in the tent. The indictment has charged the pair with arson, threats and obstruction of justice, and not with murder.
Because there has been no breakthrough in the investigation of the Dawabsheh family’s murder, it is still unclear whether those who perpetrated the attack in Duma knew that a family was sleeping in the house to which they set fire. But according to the Shin Bet, this group, the heart of which is in the outposts in the northern West Bank’s Shiloh Valley and slightly to the south, is almost indifferent to the outcome of its acts.
The group, which began organizing at the end of 2014, has a threshold of violence that is higher than that of most Jewish terrorists until now. Injuring Palestinians is perceived by this group as a logical, perhaps even desirable outcome of their actions.
The ideological common denominator
There is a common denominator between Duma and the second incident, not only in the way the actions were carried out, but also in the way the acts very closely recall statements in “The Kingdom of Evil,” a document written by one of the main suspects in this group, Moshe Orbach.
Orbach himself has been remanded until the end of proceedings against him on suspicion of involvement in the arson attack on the Church of Loaves and Fishes on Lake Kinneret. Since the murder in Duma, Meir Ettinger, a grandson of assassinated right-wing extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, has been in administrative detention, along with two others. Ettinger is described as a key figure, if not the head, of the group. Restraining orders, or orders requiring suspects to remain in their homes after dark, have been issued against 15 other suspects, most of them residents of the northern West Bank.
However the state has probably not managed to totally deter these people. According to the Shin Bet and the prosecution, Gafni and the minor set fire to the tent on August 13, about two weeks after the arson and murders in Duma. The second attack was in fact probably aimed at deterring the security establishment and the prosecution from issuing more administrative detention orders. The fact that the suspects were caught relatively quickly apparently shows that the authorities have tightened their surveillance of the group following the murder.
A gag order is still in force about many of the details of the investigation, despite the cracking of the case of the second attack and the indictment. What is clear is that relatively sophisticated means were employed to catch those responsible for the terror attacks.
Major efforts were also required to crack the case of the arson attack on the Lake Kinneret church, which occurred around the time of the murder at Duma. It's certain that similar methods are now being employed to find the murderers who perpetrated the attack in Duma. But in this case, the damage is already done, and it may be assumed that the suspects are taking even greater precautions to evade capture.
Hamas asks the PA to end security coordination with the IOA
Hamas Movement advised the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah to end its security coordination with the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) in response to the arson attack on the Dawabshe family.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said in a press release on Monday that this should be only a preliminary response to the crime that killed the toddler Ali Dawabshe and his father then his mother.
He described continuation of the security coordination as “national treason” that only provided cover for the IOA to commit more crimes and similar arson attacks against the Palestinian people.
Fanatic Jewish settlers set the home of Dawabshe family in Duma village, south of Nablus, on fire on 31st July killing the 18-month old Ali on the spot and his father a few days later. His mother succumbed to her critical wounds yesterday while his 4-year-old brother Ahmed is struggling for life with serious burns all over his little body.
Israeli security services have cracked other cases involving arson attacks by Jewish extremists, but those who set fire to a home in Duma, killing a baby and his parents, are apparently still at large.
The death of Reham Dawabsheh, a little over a month after the terror attack in which her baby, Ali, and her husband, Saad, were killed has not elicited the same sense of shock on the part of the Israeli public as did the initial news of the arson attack on the family’s home in the West Bank village of Duma in late July.
True, the country’s leadership has issued a new series of condemnations of what seems, according to all indications, to have been a murderous act of terror committed by Jewish terrorists. But as of now, even with just one member of the family, four-year-old Ahmed, left alive, no progress has been reported in the investigation itself, which is being conducted by the Shin Bet security service unit that deals with Jewish suspects, assisted by the Israel Police. As far as we know, the murderers are still at large.
Coincidently or not, shortly after Dawabsheh died, a gag order was lifted Monday on a report that the Shin Bet had recently arrested two extreme right-wing activists for a similar act of arson in a Bedouin community not far from the place of the murder northeast of Ramallah. The two, who have been indicted, are 18-year-old Avraham Gafni, and an unnamed 16-year old, both residents of an outpost called Givat Habaladim, in the Binyamin region of the West Bank. The Shin Bet has already earmarked the outpost as one of the key places where Jewish extremists are organizing — and as the residence of some of those allegedly involved in the murder of the Dawabsheh family.
According to the indictment, Gafni and the minor set fire to a tent in which a large quantity of equipment was stored, but no one was sleeping there on the night of the fire. The Bedouin family whose property was burned said that the week before people had been sleeping in the tent. The indictment has charged the pair with arson, threats and obstruction of justice, and not with murder.
Because there has been no breakthrough in the investigation of the Dawabsheh family’s murder, it is still unclear whether those who perpetrated the attack in Duma knew that a family was sleeping in the house to which they set fire. But according to the Shin Bet, this group, the heart of which is in the outposts in the northern West Bank’s Shiloh Valley and slightly to the south, is almost indifferent to the outcome of its acts.
The group, which began organizing at the end of 2014, has a threshold of violence that is higher than that of most Jewish terrorists until now. Injuring Palestinians is perceived by this group as a logical, perhaps even desirable outcome of their actions.
The ideological common denominator
There is a common denominator between Duma and the second incident, not only in the way the actions were carried out, but also in the way the acts very closely recall statements in “The Kingdom of Evil,” a document written by one of the main suspects in this group, Moshe Orbach.
Orbach himself has been remanded until the end of proceedings against him on suspicion of involvement in the arson attack on the Church of Loaves and Fishes on Lake Kinneret. Since the murder in Duma, Meir Ettinger, a grandson of assassinated right-wing extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, has been in administrative detention, along with two others. Ettinger is described as a key figure, if not the head, of the group. Restraining orders, or orders requiring suspects to remain in their homes after dark, have been issued against 15 other suspects, most of them residents of the northern West Bank.
However the state has probably not managed to totally deter these people. According to the Shin Bet and the prosecution, Gafni and the minor set fire to the tent on August 13, about two weeks after the arson and murders in Duma. The second attack was in fact probably aimed at deterring the security establishment and the prosecution from issuing more administrative detention orders. The fact that the suspects were caught relatively quickly apparently shows that the authorities have tightened their surveillance of the group following the murder.
A gag order is still in force about many of the details of the investigation, despite the cracking of the case of the second attack and the indictment. What is clear is that relatively sophisticated means were employed to catch those responsible for the terror attacks.
Major efforts were also required to crack the case of the arson attack on the Lake Kinneret church, which occurred around the time of the murder at Duma. It's certain that similar methods are now being employed to find the murderers who perpetrated the attack in Duma. But in this case, the damage is already done, and it may be assumed that the suspects are taking even greater precautions to evade capture.
Hamas asks the PA to end security coordination with the IOA
Hamas Movement advised the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah to end its security coordination with the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) in response to the arson attack on the Dawabshe family.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said in a press release on Monday that this should be only a preliminary response to the crime that killed the toddler Ali Dawabshe and his father then his mother.
He described continuation of the security coordination as “national treason” that only provided cover for the IOA to commit more crimes and similar arson attacks against the Palestinian people.
Fanatic Jewish settlers set the home of Dawabshe family in Duma village, south of Nablus, on fire on 31st July killing the 18-month old Ali on the spot and his father a few days later. His mother succumbed to her critical wounds yesterday while his 4-year-old brother Ahmed is struggling for life with serious burns all over his little body.
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Hamas Movement in the West Bank said in a statement on Monday that martyr Riham Dawabsheh passed away after a long struggle with the severe burns she sustained after a gang of Israeli settlers deliberately started fire in her home in Duma town south of Nablus.
The statement charged that this heinous crime, which led to the tragic death of Riham, her husband, and her 18-month-old toddler, exposes the cruel Israeli targeting of the Palestinian people. The Movement clarified that Riham Dawabsheh, who graduated from al-Najah University, was an active member in the Islamic Bloc. The statement further condemned the Palestinian Authority's passive position and failure to fulfill its responsibilities vis-à-vis the settlers' flagrant violations against the Palestinian people. |
Those violations are openly supported by the extremist Israeli government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, the statement charged.
Hamas declared that it will never forgive this crime committed against an innocent family and that it has not and will never forgive all the Israeli crimes against the families in Duma town and against the Palestinian people in general.
Hamas called on the Palestinian resistance factions and al-Qassam Brigades, its armed wing, in particular to carry out deterrent attacks in response to the Israeli arrogance.
The Movement also called on all Palestinians in the West Bank, especially in Nablus, to participate in the funeral procession of Riham Dawabsheh and to support the residents of Duma town in their ordeal.
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Hamas declared that it will never forgive this crime committed against an innocent family and that it has not and will never forgive all the Israeli crimes against the families in Duma town and against the Palestinian people in general.
Hamas called on the Palestinian resistance factions and al-Qassam Brigades, its armed wing, in particular to carry out deterrent attacks in response to the Israeli arrogance.
The Movement also called on all Palestinians in the West Bank, especially in Nablus, to participate in the funeral procession of Riham Dawabsheh and to support the residents of Duma town in their ordeal.
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Israeli news outlets on Monday highlighted the panic-stricken state of affairs rocking the occupied West Bank moments after the mother of an 18-month toddler, who was burned to death, succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli arson attack on the Dawabsheh family home in Nablus by the end of July.
According to Hebrew news websites the Israeli occupation army has declared a state of alert in anticipation of violent clashes that are likely to heat up soon after the funeral procession of Riham Dawabsheh.
Heavy deployment of the occupation soldiers is expected to crop up across flashpoints, checkpoints, and crossroads.
Calls for a Friday of anger were, meanwhile, disseminated via social networking websites after reports were released
on Riham’s death.
The Teachers Union in Nablus announced their decision to suspend courses in local schools at 11 a.m. on Monday, declaring it an official mourning day.
The Teachers Union called on all pupils and teaching staff to rally outside of the headquarters of the education department in Nablus and march in the funeral procession of their 28-year-old colleague Riham.
Local activists and citizens slammed the Palestinian Authority (PA) apparatuses for their apathy as regards Israel’s preplanned murder of innocent civilians.
“For God’s sake how would hospitalized Ahmad [Riham’s surviving kid] receive such a piece of news? Shall we inform him that his mother, father, and only brother were all burned to death and could not survive?” student Shaymaa al-Ali said.
Mahmoud al-Masri, from An-Najah University, attributed the arson attack and the murder of the Dawabsheh family to the PA-Israel security coordination in the West Bank, which has given Israeli vandals so large a space to discharge their sadistic impulses.
Riham Dawabsheh succumbed to the wounds she sustained in a settler arson attack on her family home in Duma on July 31, 2015. Her 18-month toddler Ali went up in flames and breathed his last shortly after the attack while the father Saad passed away a few days later. The family’s surviving four-year-old Ahmad sustained critical wounds and is being currently treated in hospital.
Hamas calls for deterrent operations against Israel in WB
Hamas Movement has called on the resistance members in the West Bank to carry out military operations against the Israeli occupation so as to deter its violations and to put an end to the settlers' continued assaults once and for all.
Hamas spokesman Husam Badran said in a statement on Monday: "We are confident that our Palestinian people will never submit, and the resistance in the West Bank will never surrender. We are looking forward to confronting the Israeli occupation in the West Bank; so as to change the facts on the ground."
Badran stressed that the Israeli settlers' arson attack against Dawabsheh family which led to the death of 18-month-old toddler Ali Dawabsheh, his father, and his mother is a clear evidence of the malicious systematic policy pursued by Israeli soldiers and settlers against the Palestinian people.
This policy is aimed at killing, displacing, and terrorizing the Palestinian people in order to deter them from exercising their legitimate right of resisting the occupation, according to Badran.
The spokesman finally said that it has become crystal clear that the international positions have failed to protect the Palestinians from the Israeli violations. "The Palestinians in the WB have to use their resistance means to fight against the Israeli occupation on their own," Badran said.
According to Hebrew news websites the Israeli occupation army has declared a state of alert in anticipation of violent clashes that are likely to heat up soon after the funeral procession of Riham Dawabsheh.
Heavy deployment of the occupation soldiers is expected to crop up across flashpoints, checkpoints, and crossroads.
Calls for a Friday of anger were, meanwhile, disseminated via social networking websites after reports were released
on Riham’s death.
The Teachers Union in Nablus announced their decision to suspend courses in local schools at 11 a.m. on Monday, declaring it an official mourning day.
The Teachers Union called on all pupils and teaching staff to rally outside of the headquarters of the education department in Nablus and march in the funeral procession of their 28-year-old colleague Riham.
Local activists and citizens slammed the Palestinian Authority (PA) apparatuses for their apathy as regards Israel’s preplanned murder of innocent civilians.
“For God’s sake how would hospitalized Ahmad [Riham’s surviving kid] receive such a piece of news? Shall we inform him that his mother, father, and only brother were all burned to death and could not survive?” student Shaymaa al-Ali said.
Mahmoud al-Masri, from An-Najah University, attributed the arson attack and the murder of the Dawabsheh family to the PA-Israel security coordination in the West Bank, which has given Israeli vandals so large a space to discharge their sadistic impulses.
Riham Dawabsheh succumbed to the wounds she sustained in a settler arson attack on her family home in Duma on July 31, 2015. Her 18-month toddler Ali went up in flames and breathed his last shortly after the attack while the father Saad passed away a few days later. The family’s surviving four-year-old Ahmad sustained critical wounds and is being currently treated in hospital.
Hamas calls for deterrent operations against Israel in WB
Hamas Movement has called on the resistance members in the West Bank to carry out military operations against the Israeli occupation so as to deter its violations and to put an end to the settlers' continued assaults once and for all.
Hamas spokesman Husam Badran said in a statement on Monday: "We are confident that our Palestinian people will never submit, and the resistance in the West Bank will never surrender. We are looking forward to confronting the Israeli occupation in the West Bank; so as to change the facts on the ground."
Badran stressed that the Israeli settlers' arson attack against Dawabsheh family which led to the death of 18-month-old toddler Ali Dawabsheh, his father, and his mother is a clear evidence of the malicious systematic policy pursued by Israeli soldiers and settlers against the Palestinian people.
This policy is aimed at killing, displacing, and terrorizing the Palestinian people in order to deter them from exercising their legitimate right of resisting the occupation, according to Badran.
The spokesman finally said that it has become crystal clear that the international positions have failed to protect the Palestinians from the Israeli violations. "The Palestinians in the WB have to use their resistance means to fight against the Israeli occupation on their own," Badran said.
Reham Dawabsha 27
Israeli media sources have reported that Reham Dawabsha died of her serious wounds, shortly after midnight on Sunday night, after a deterioration in her health condition, despite a slight improvement earlier in the day. Her child was burnt to death in the attack, her husband died of his wounds later, and her other child, Ahmad, 5, suffered second-degree burns to 60% of his body.
Dr. Mohammad Dawabsha told the Maan News Agency that doctors at the Israeli Hospital called him before Reham died, telling him that she might pass away at any given moment due to a sudden collapse in her health condition.
Reham, 27 years of age, suffered serious burns after Israeli terrorists firebombed her home, in Douma village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, on July 31st, as the family slept.
The firebombing of the home caused the death of her child, Sa’ad Dawabsha was seriously injured, and died of his wounds on August 8th.
Israeli media sources have reported that Reham Dawabsha died of her serious wounds, shortly after midnight on Sunday night, after a deterioration in her health condition, despite a slight improvement earlier in the day. Her child was burnt to death in the attack, her husband died of his wounds later, and her other child, Ahmad, 5, suffered second-degree burns to 60% of his body.
Dr. Mohammad Dawabsha told the Maan News Agency that doctors at the Israeli Hospital called him before Reham died, telling him that she might pass away at any given moment due to a sudden collapse in her health condition.
Reham, 27 years of age, suffered serious burns after Israeli terrorists firebombed her home, in Douma village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, on July 31st, as the family slept.
The firebombing of the home caused the death of her child, Sa’ad Dawabsha was seriously injured, and died of his wounds on August 8th.
6 sept 2015
Eighteen-month-old Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha died while four family members were wounded in a fire at their homes in the West Bank.
Medical sources said, Sunday, that Riham al-Dawabsha, mother of a Palestinian 18-month-old toddler who was killed in an terrorist attack carried out by Israeli settlers in July, was beginning to "respond" to medical treatment, although she remained in critical danger.
Medical sources at Tel HaShomer Hospital told Ma'an that Riham, 27, who suffered third degree burns to 90 percent of her body in the attack, was beginning to respond to antibiotics.
The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health, however, said that she remained in a very serious conditions due to both bacterial and fungal infections.
Riham's health was showing signs of deterioration on Saturday, according to Al Ray. Kamal al-Shakhra, the head of a medical team sent to Tel HaShomer hospital by the PA earlier Sunday, said in a press statement that Riham's blood pressure had dropped and her vital organs had stopped working, but that her condition was stable.
Al-Shakhra said that doctors at the hospital were planning for Riham to undergo a skin transplant operation, although the operation has been postponed until her health shows signs of improvement.
Al-Shakhra confirmed that the condition of Riham's four-year-old son, Ahmad, was getting better. Eyhab al-Zeitawi, from the PA Ministry for Civil Affairs, said that following directives from Minister for Civil Affairs Hussien al-Shiekh, action had been taken for the the Dawabsha family to visit Riham and Ahmad.
Ahmad, was also severely burnt in the attack on the family's home on July 31 that killed his 18-month-old brother, Ali, and a little over a week later his father, Saad, 30, who succumbed to his wounds in Soroka Hospital in southern Israel.
The attack sparked international outrage, although many Palestinians pointed out that settler attacks against the Palestinian community are common and often go unpunished by the Israeli authorities.
Following the attack, Israeli authorities arrested a number of extremist settlers without charge, but later released nearly all the suspects.
Israeli settlers have carried out at least 142 attacks on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the start of this year, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Only 1.9 percent of complaints submitted by Palestinians against Israeli settler attacks result in a conviction, the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din reported.
Medical sources said, Sunday, that Riham al-Dawabsha, mother of a Palestinian 18-month-old toddler who was killed in an terrorist attack carried out by Israeli settlers in July, was beginning to "respond" to medical treatment, although she remained in critical danger.
Medical sources at Tel HaShomer Hospital told Ma'an that Riham, 27, who suffered third degree burns to 90 percent of her body in the attack, was beginning to respond to antibiotics.
The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health, however, said that she remained in a very serious conditions due to both bacterial and fungal infections.
Riham's health was showing signs of deterioration on Saturday, according to Al Ray. Kamal al-Shakhra, the head of a medical team sent to Tel HaShomer hospital by the PA earlier Sunday, said in a press statement that Riham's blood pressure had dropped and her vital organs had stopped working, but that her condition was stable.
Al-Shakhra said that doctors at the hospital were planning for Riham to undergo a skin transplant operation, although the operation has been postponed until her health shows signs of improvement.
Al-Shakhra confirmed that the condition of Riham's four-year-old son, Ahmad, was getting better. Eyhab al-Zeitawi, from the PA Ministry for Civil Affairs, said that following directives from Minister for Civil Affairs Hussien al-Shiekh, action had been taken for the the Dawabsha family to visit Riham and Ahmad.
Ahmad, was also severely burnt in the attack on the family's home on July 31 that killed his 18-month-old brother, Ali, and a little over a week later his father, Saad, 30, who succumbed to his wounds in Soroka Hospital in southern Israel.
The attack sparked international outrage, although many Palestinians pointed out that settler attacks against the Palestinian community are common and often go unpunished by the Israeli authorities.
Following the attack, Israeli authorities arrested a number of extremist settlers without charge, but later released nearly all the suspects.
Israeli settlers have carried out at least 142 attacks on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the start of this year, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Only 1.9 percent of complaints submitted by Palestinians against Israeli settler attacks result in a conviction, the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din reported.
Palestinian women look at the damage at the Dawabsha family's home in the West Bank village of Duma on August 4, 2015, after it was set on fire by Jewish extremists
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health will send a special medical team on Sunday to Tel HaShomer Hospital in central Israel to evaluate and monitor the health of Riham Dawabsha, the mother of 18-month-old Palestinian toddler, Ali Dawabsha, who was killed in an arson attack carried out by Israeli settlers at the end of July in the village of Duma south of Nablus, the Minister of Health, Jawad Awwad said in a statement.
The family of Riham told Ma'an on Saturday that the health of the 27-year-old mother of two had severely deteriorated, and that she was not responding to any treatment. Health minister Awwad said that the ministry's special medical team would take charge in making any "decisions in case of any emergency.”
A spokesperson for Tal HaShomer Hospital could not be reached for comment. The ministry's team will be headed by Dr. Kamal al-Shakhra from the Ministry of Health and Eyhab Zeitawi from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Riham suffered third-degree burns to 90 percent of her body in an arson attack on her home in the southern Nablus village of Duma more than a month ago. Her 18-month-old son, Ali, was burnt alive in the attack, while her husband, Saad, 30, succumbed to his wounds a little over a week later.
The couple's four-year-old son, Ahmad, was also severely burnt in the attack, although Riham's brother, who was with the boy on Saturday, said that his condition had improved.
The arson, which took place during the earliest hours of the morning on July 31, sparked international outrage, although many Palestinians pointed out that settler attacks against the Palestinian community are common and often go unpunished by the Israeli authorities.
Following the attack, Israeli authorities arrested a number of extremist settlers without issuing any charges, but has released nearly all suspects.
Israeli settlers have carried out at least 142 attacks on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the start of this year, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Only 1.9 percent of complaints submitted by Palestinians against Israeli settler attacks result in a conviction, the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din reported.
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health will send a special medical team on Sunday to Tel HaShomer Hospital in central Israel to evaluate and monitor the health of Riham Dawabsha, the mother of 18-month-old Palestinian toddler, Ali Dawabsha, who was killed in an arson attack carried out by Israeli settlers at the end of July in the village of Duma south of Nablus, the Minister of Health, Jawad Awwad said in a statement.
The family of Riham told Ma'an on Saturday that the health of the 27-year-old mother of two had severely deteriorated, and that she was not responding to any treatment. Health minister Awwad said that the ministry's special medical team would take charge in making any "decisions in case of any emergency.”
A spokesperson for Tal HaShomer Hospital could not be reached for comment. The ministry's team will be headed by Dr. Kamal al-Shakhra from the Ministry of Health and Eyhab Zeitawi from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Riham suffered third-degree burns to 90 percent of her body in an arson attack on her home in the southern Nablus village of Duma more than a month ago. Her 18-month-old son, Ali, was burnt alive in the attack, while her husband, Saad, 30, succumbed to his wounds a little over a week later.
The couple's four-year-old son, Ahmad, was also severely burnt in the attack, although Riham's brother, who was with the boy on Saturday, said that his condition had improved.
The arson, which took place during the earliest hours of the morning on July 31, sparked international outrage, although many Palestinians pointed out that settler attacks against the Palestinian community are common and often go unpunished by the Israeli authorities.
Following the attack, Israeli authorities arrested a number of extremist settlers without issuing any charges, but has released nearly all suspects.
Israeli settlers have carried out at least 142 attacks on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the start of this year, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Only 1.9 percent of complaints submitted by Palestinians against Israeli settler attacks result in a conviction, the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din reported.
