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Dawabsha family, july 31 2015 burned by settlers |
7 aug 2015
Lawless State of Judea is forming in the West Bank, warns Yuval Diskin, who says extremists are most dangerous than many think and law enforcement is 'shockingly weak' against them.
Former Shin Bet chief Yuval DIskin on Friday criticized the government's handling of West Bank extremists in the wake of the Jewish terror attack in Duma.
"Alongside the State of Israel, a de facto State of Judea is being formed," Diskin wrote in a lengthy Facebook post warning of a potentially irreversible situation.
"In the State of Judea there are different standards, different value systems, different attitudes towards democracy, and there are two legal systems," he asserted. "In the State of Judea, law enforcement is shockingly weak towards Jews. In the State of Judea, anarchistic, anti-state, violent, and racist ideologies are forming over the years, and they are treated tolerantly by the Israeli legal and judicial system. "
According to the former security service chief, "the Hilltop Youth (hard-line, extremist settlers) are setting the tone within Religious Zionism. Anyone who thinks we are only talking about a few dozen of delusional youths is making a big mistake. In the State of Judea, there are many hundreds of youths supporting messianic and/or anarchistic, anti-state ideologies.
"Among these many hundreds are dozens who daily adopt different levels of violence or terrorism against Palestinian lives and property," wrote the ex-Shin Bet boss. "Among them are dozens who would be willing to unhesitatingly take part in violence and terrorism against their Jewish brothers when they see the value of "sacred land" as being put to the test. In certain scenarios, these numbers can be expected to increase significantly."
According to Diskin, the Shin Bet, the police, and the IDF are well aware of the figures, as have prime ministers through the ages, as well as various law enforcement agencies. "Even when I was head of the Shin Bet, I appeared at different Mechinot (pre-military educational programs) in Judea and Samaria and openly said that I thought Jewish terrorism was a cancer on the body of the nation," Diskin wrote.
But some in the Shin Bet are concerned, he claimed. "A number of employees in the Shin Bet's Jewish division, particularly those among them who wear kippas and lived in settlements, have been the target of harassment, boycotts, and denunciation by radical right-wing activists. One of the current senior employees in the Shin Bet, who is religious and lived in a settlement until recently, was afraid to serve as head of the Shin Bet department in charge of the Jewish division."
The government has always preferred to deal with other security threats rather than deal with administrative detention for Jewish terror operatives, Diskin argued. "It is also not politically beneficial when we have a government based on right-wing parties, and has a right-wing political lobby as well as a rabbinical lobby, which immediately rallies around those who were jailed or detained, and makes enormous efforts to free them."
Diskin warned of a far graver future. "The situation will only get worse and become more complicated," he wrote. "My conclusion is that we have to wait for it to be worse in order for it to perhaps get better. Will it be better? It depends only on us, because we have reached this situation without leadership and without a path."
Former Shin Bet chief Yuval DIskin on Friday criticized the government's handling of West Bank extremists in the wake of the Jewish terror attack in Duma.
"Alongside the State of Israel, a de facto State of Judea is being formed," Diskin wrote in a lengthy Facebook post warning of a potentially irreversible situation.
"In the State of Judea there are different standards, different value systems, different attitudes towards democracy, and there are two legal systems," he asserted. "In the State of Judea, law enforcement is shockingly weak towards Jews. In the State of Judea, anarchistic, anti-state, violent, and racist ideologies are forming over the years, and they are treated tolerantly by the Israeli legal and judicial system. "
According to the former security service chief, "the Hilltop Youth (hard-line, extremist settlers) are setting the tone within Religious Zionism. Anyone who thinks we are only talking about a few dozen of delusional youths is making a big mistake. In the State of Judea, there are many hundreds of youths supporting messianic and/or anarchistic, anti-state ideologies.
"Among these many hundreds are dozens who daily adopt different levels of violence or terrorism against Palestinian lives and property," wrote the ex-Shin Bet boss. "Among them are dozens who would be willing to unhesitatingly take part in violence and terrorism against their Jewish brothers when they see the value of "sacred land" as being put to the test. In certain scenarios, these numbers can be expected to increase significantly."
According to Diskin, the Shin Bet, the police, and the IDF are well aware of the figures, as have prime ministers through the ages, as well as various law enforcement agencies. "Even when I was head of the Shin Bet, I appeared at different Mechinot (pre-military educational programs) in Judea and Samaria and openly said that I thought Jewish terrorism was a cancer on the body of the nation," Diskin wrote.
But some in the Shin Bet are concerned, he claimed. "A number of employees in the Shin Bet's Jewish division, particularly those among them who wear kippas and lived in settlements, have been the target of harassment, boycotts, and denunciation by radical right-wing activists. One of the current senior employees in the Shin Bet, who is religious and lived in a settlement until recently, was afraid to serve as head of the Shin Bet department in charge of the Jewish division."
The government has always preferred to deal with other security threats rather than deal with administrative detention for Jewish terror operatives, Diskin argued. "It is also not politically beneficial when we have a government based on right-wing parties, and has a right-wing political lobby as well as a rabbinical lobby, which immediately rallies around those who were jailed or detained, and makes enormous efforts to free them."
Diskin warned of a far graver future. "The situation will only get worse and become more complicated," he wrote. "My conclusion is that we have to wait for it to be worse in order for it to perhaps get better. Will it be better? It depends only on us, because we have reached this situation without leadership and without a path."
6 aug 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.
By Sara Yael Hirschhorn
The events in Israel at the end of last week pierced and seared the hearts of many diaspora Zionists. The alleged perpetrators came from radically opposed sectors of Israeli society - the knife-wielding assassin at Gay Pride hailed from a strictly-Orthodox background that rejects the state of Israel; the settler terrorists emerged from the national-religious movement that aspires to achieve Zionist sovereignty across the entire Holy Land.
What they had in common, however, was the depraved belief that they were acting in service of their faith. But what is Jewish about "Jewish" extremism?
While it has been said that the Gay Pride attacker was mentally ill, he was presumably motivated by biblical prohibitions against homosexuality and anti-LGBT sentiment within some segments of Charedi society.
Scholars of Halachah and strict Orthodoxy must explain the context of his activities further.
Clearer conclusions can be drawn on the murder of toddler Ali Saad Dawabsheh by a radical fringe of the settler movement known as the "Hilltop Youth".
The late scholar Charles S Liebman characterised Israeli ultra-nationalism as a combination of territorial maximalism, xenophobia and the aim of creating a halachic state.
The violent expression of this agenda is not new to the settler movement. Since the 1980s, groups including the Jewish Underground and circles surrounding prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's killer Yigal Amir have embraced terrorism.
In recent years, notable figures like Hebron spiritual leader Dov Lior and Rosh Yeshiva of Yizhar Yitzhak Ginsberg - I deny both the honorific of 'Rabbi' - have promulgated racism and incited violence against gentiles.
It is suspected that the perpetrators of the recent assault were inspired by 24-year-old Bnei Brak resident Moshe Orbach's religious manifesto The Kingdom of Evil, which advocated the acceleration of attacks against holy sites and Palestinian civilians.
There is nothing Jewish about killing innocents in cold blood. We must root out this evil in our midst.
Dr Hirschhorn is lecturer in Israel Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Report on Settler Terrorism to be Submitted to Arab League
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Thursday, issued a special report to be presented to the Arab Foreign Minister’s meeting. The report highlights Israel’s terror attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.
Since 2004, Israeli settlers have carried out more than 11,000 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The settlers attack our people, homes, churches, mosques, trees and even poison our water. Not a single settler is currently imprisoned for the commission of such dreadful crimes, report said.
The report covers the period between January 01st – July 31st, 2015, including the burning and killing of Ali Dawabsha.
The report also provides details for the arson attack.
On the morning of July 31st, 2015, a group of settler criminals attacked and burnt down two Palestinian homes in Duma village in Nablus district. The family of Ma’moon Dawabsheh was not inside at the time its home was attacked, but the home of Ali Saed Dawabsha was burnt while the family was asleep inside.
As a result, baby Ali lost his life. Ali’s mother and father, Riham and Saad, and his four-year-old brother Ahmad suffered severe burns and remain in critical condition as a result of the same attack. The incident harkens back to July of last year when a 16 year old Palestinian child from Jerusalem, Muhammad Abu Khdeir, was kidnapped and burned alive by Israeli settlers.
It also mentions that only a few hours before the attack on Duma, the Israeli Channel 2 broadcast a report about a Jewish terrorist cell based in the occupied West Bank which had attacked the Church of Loaves and Fishes in Tiberias.The TV report revealed information about a compact disc found in the possession of the attackers:
The CD provided instructions for an “easy way to burn Arabs alive”; “First, break the glass windows using stones. Then continuously start throwing molotov cocktails. Then set tires on fire and place them on the exit points of the house, so no one escapes – so all are burnt alive”. This report was broadcast at primetime on a major Israeli TV network. This was a similar method used by the attackers when, hours later, they threw incendiary devices through the glass window of baby Ali’s room and throughout the house.
According to a recent report by Israeli Human rights organization Yesh Din, 85.3 percent of investigative files are closed due the failure of Israeli police investigators to locate suspects or to find sufficient evidence to enable indictment. In addition, only 7.4 percent of investigations have yielded indictments against suspects.
Only one-third (32.7 percent) of legal proceedings have ended in the full or partial conviction of the defendants. This means that the chance that a complaint submitted to the Israel police by a Palestinian will lead to an effective investigation, the location of a suspect, prosecution, and ultimate conviction is just 1.9 percent.
Israeli occupation authorities have established, and continue to consolidate, the illegal settlements and presence of settlers in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli government fuels the crimes of the settlers through hateful rhetoric and incitement against Palestinians. Israeli ministers have publicly called for the killing and dehumanization of the Palestinian people, and the Israeli legal and judicial system provides no legal recourse for victims of the horrific crime that results.
The report added that the State of Palestine holds the Israeli occupation’s government fully responsible for the daily terror attacks it carries out against the land and people of Palestine.
Israel grants impunity for the settlers, their leaders and their Knesset members and in the process many Palestinians continue to falls victims of cruel, inhuman and degrading acts carried out by settlers, often under the full protection of the Israeli military and security forces.
President Mahmoud Abbas formally called upon the international community last year to assume its responsibility to protect the Palestinian people under occupation. While the world preferred to ignore the Palestinian call, hundreds of attacks took place, with thousands being killed, injured and arbitrarily imprisoned.
“We once again call upon the international community to assume its responsibility to protect and to hold Israeli authorities responsible for their criminal acts. For peace to prevail, the culture of Israeli impunity must end.”
By Sara Yael Hirschhorn
The events in Israel at the end of last week pierced and seared the hearts of many diaspora Zionists. The alleged perpetrators came from radically opposed sectors of Israeli society - the knife-wielding assassin at Gay Pride hailed from a strictly-Orthodox background that rejects the state of Israel; the settler terrorists emerged from the national-religious movement that aspires to achieve Zionist sovereignty across the entire Holy Land.
What they had in common, however, was the depraved belief that they were acting in service of their faith. But what is Jewish about "Jewish" extremism?
While it has been said that the Gay Pride attacker was mentally ill, he was presumably motivated by biblical prohibitions against homosexuality and anti-LGBT sentiment within some segments of Charedi society.
Scholars of Halachah and strict Orthodoxy must explain the context of his activities further.
Clearer conclusions can be drawn on the murder of toddler Ali Saad Dawabsheh by a radical fringe of the settler movement known as the "Hilltop Youth".
The late scholar Charles S Liebman characterised Israeli ultra-nationalism as a combination of territorial maximalism, xenophobia and the aim of creating a halachic state.
The violent expression of this agenda is not new to the settler movement. Since the 1980s, groups including the Jewish Underground and circles surrounding prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's killer Yigal Amir have embraced terrorism.
In recent years, notable figures like Hebron spiritual leader Dov Lior and Rosh Yeshiva of Yizhar Yitzhak Ginsberg - I deny both the honorific of 'Rabbi' - have promulgated racism and incited violence against gentiles.
It is suspected that the perpetrators of the recent assault were inspired by 24-year-old Bnei Brak resident Moshe Orbach's religious manifesto The Kingdom of Evil, which advocated the acceleration of attacks against holy sites and Palestinian civilians.
There is nothing Jewish about killing innocents in cold blood. We must root out this evil in our midst.
Dr Hirschhorn is lecturer in Israel Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Report on Settler Terrorism to be Submitted to Arab League
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Thursday, issued a special report to be presented to the Arab Foreign Minister’s meeting. The report highlights Israel’s terror attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.
Since 2004, Israeli settlers have carried out more than 11,000 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The settlers attack our people, homes, churches, mosques, trees and even poison our water. Not a single settler is currently imprisoned for the commission of such dreadful crimes, report said.
The report covers the period between January 01st – July 31st, 2015, including the burning and killing of Ali Dawabsha.
The report also provides details for the arson attack.
On the morning of July 31st, 2015, a group of settler criminals attacked and burnt down two Palestinian homes in Duma village in Nablus district. The family of Ma’moon Dawabsheh was not inside at the time its home was attacked, but the home of Ali Saed Dawabsha was burnt while the family was asleep inside.
As a result, baby Ali lost his life. Ali’s mother and father, Riham and Saad, and his four-year-old brother Ahmad suffered severe burns and remain in critical condition as a result of the same attack. The incident harkens back to July of last year when a 16 year old Palestinian child from Jerusalem, Muhammad Abu Khdeir, was kidnapped and burned alive by Israeli settlers.
It also mentions that only a few hours before the attack on Duma, the Israeli Channel 2 broadcast a report about a Jewish terrorist cell based in the occupied West Bank which had attacked the Church of Loaves and Fishes in Tiberias.The TV report revealed information about a compact disc found in the possession of the attackers:
The CD provided instructions for an “easy way to burn Arabs alive”; “First, break the glass windows using stones. Then continuously start throwing molotov cocktails. Then set tires on fire and place them on the exit points of the house, so no one escapes – so all are burnt alive”. This report was broadcast at primetime on a major Israeli TV network. This was a similar method used by the attackers when, hours later, they threw incendiary devices through the glass window of baby Ali’s room and throughout the house.
According to a recent report by Israeli Human rights organization Yesh Din, 85.3 percent of investigative files are closed due the failure of Israeli police investigators to locate suspects or to find sufficient evidence to enable indictment. In addition, only 7.4 percent of investigations have yielded indictments against suspects.
Only one-third (32.7 percent) of legal proceedings have ended in the full or partial conviction of the defendants. This means that the chance that a complaint submitted to the Israel police by a Palestinian will lead to an effective investigation, the location of a suspect, prosecution, and ultimate conviction is just 1.9 percent.
Israeli occupation authorities have established, and continue to consolidate, the illegal settlements and presence of settlers in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli government fuels the crimes of the settlers through hateful rhetoric and incitement against Palestinians. Israeli ministers have publicly called for the killing and dehumanization of the Palestinian people, and the Israeli legal and judicial system provides no legal recourse for victims of the horrific crime that results.
The report added that the State of Palestine holds the Israeli occupation’s government fully responsible for the daily terror attacks it carries out against the land and people of Palestine.
Israel grants impunity for the settlers, their leaders and their Knesset members and in the process many Palestinians continue to falls victims of cruel, inhuman and degrading acts carried out by settlers, often under the full protection of the Israeli military and security forces.
President Mahmoud Abbas formally called upon the international community last year to assume its responsibility to protect the Palestinian people under occupation. While the world preferred to ignore the Palestinian call, hundreds of attacks took place, with thousands being killed, injured and arbitrarily imprisoned.
“We once again call upon the international community to assume its responsibility to protect and to hold Israeli authorities responsible for their criminal acts. For peace to prevail, the culture of Israeli impunity must end.”
The Zionist Organisation of America (ZOA), one of the oldest Israel advocacy groups in the United States, has claimed that the fatal arson attack on a Palestinian home in the West Bank could have been an "Arab hoax."
In a statement by the group's president Morton Klein mailed to their supporters, the ZOA said it was "inappropriate to rush to cast blame on Jews for the fire" that killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh.
Both local Palestinians and the Israeli authorities have been clear that the attack was carried out by Jewish settlers.
Citing "numerous instances in which Arabs have fabricated attacks or blamed Jews for Arab violence against other Arabs", the ZOA president claimed that "evidence" points to the attack being "the continuation of an 18-year-old feud between two Arab clans" in Douma.
The ZOA refers to a "history of fabricated attacks" that "goes back at least to the Nazi era", and claims that "Arab Palestinians play dead" in videos, as "the press films them."
At the time of writing, there has been no condemnation of the ZOA's statement by other pro-Israel advocacy groups, in the U.S. or elsewhere.
In a statement by the group's president Morton Klein mailed to their supporters, the ZOA said it was "inappropriate to rush to cast blame on Jews for the fire" that killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh.
Both local Palestinians and the Israeli authorities have been clear that the attack was carried out by Jewish settlers.
Citing "numerous instances in which Arabs have fabricated attacks or blamed Jews for Arab violence against other Arabs", the ZOA president claimed that "evidence" points to the attack being "the continuation of an 18-year-old feud between two Arab clans" in Douma.
The ZOA refers to a "history of fabricated attacks" that "goes back at least to the Nazi era", and claims that "Arab Palestinians play dead" in videos, as "the press films them."
At the time of writing, there has been no condemnation of the ZOA's statement by other pro-Israel advocacy groups, in the U.S. or elsewhere.
5 aug 2015
An Arab League follow-up committee on Wednesday recommended further talks to discuss putting forward a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council to protect Palestinians from settler violence, officials said.
The Arab Peace Initiative meeting in Cairo -- chaired by Egyptian Foreign Minister Samih Shukri -- called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to create an international mechanism for protecting Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories.
The committee also issued support for the Palestinian Central Council's decision to review political, economic and security relations with Israel and stressed support for Palestinian political unity and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
Palestine remains the "primary issue for Arabs," Shukri said.Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi called for the group to submit a draft resolution to the UN condemning settler violence and expressed deep concern over the financial crisis within the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, urging Arab states to commit support for the agency.
The committee includes Palestine, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon, the UAE, Morocco and Yemen. Earlier, the PLO said that a special report it prepared on settler violence would be presented to the committee.
The report, entitled "Israeli Settler Terrorism," documented settler attacks on Palestinians from Jan. 1 to July 31 and called on the international community to "hold Israeli authorities responsible for their criminal acts" and end Israel's culture of impunity.
According to the report, settlers have carried out over 11,000 attacks on Palestinians and their property, land, and religious sites since 2004.
Over 85 percent of investigations into settler violence are closed without indictments, Israeli rights group Yesh Din says.Settler violence against Palestinians is routine in the occupied territories but has come under the spotlight in the past week following an arson attack near Nablus which killed 18-month-old toddler Ali Dawabsha.
Israeli settlers have carried out at least 120 attacks on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the start of 2015, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The Arab Peace Initiative meeting in Cairo -- chaired by Egyptian Foreign Minister Samih Shukri -- called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to create an international mechanism for protecting Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories.
The committee also issued support for the Palestinian Central Council's decision to review political, economic and security relations with Israel and stressed support for Palestinian political unity and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
Palestine remains the "primary issue for Arabs," Shukri said.Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi called for the group to submit a draft resolution to the UN condemning settler violence and expressed deep concern over the financial crisis within the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, urging Arab states to commit support for the agency.
The committee includes Palestine, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon, the UAE, Morocco and Yemen. Earlier, the PLO said that a special report it prepared on settler violence would be presented to the committee.
The report, entitled "Israeli Settler Terrorism," documented settler attacks on Palestinians from Jan. 1 to July 31 and called on the international community to "hold Israeli authorities responsible for their criminal acts" and end Israel's culture of impunity.
According to the report, settlers have carried out over 11,000 attacks on Palestinians and their property, land, and religious sites since 2004.
Over 85 percent of investigations into settler violence are closed without indictments, Israeli rights group Yesh Din says.Settler violence against Palestinians is routine in the occupied territories but has come under the spotlight in the past week following an arson attack near Nablus which killed 18-month-old toddler Ali Dawabsha.
Israeli settlers have carried out at least 120 attacks on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the start of 2015, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Israeli forces on Tuesday stormed the house of Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabsheh, who was burnt to death on Friday in an arson attack by Jewish settlers.
The IDF searched the Dawabshehs' house in the village of Duma, near Nablus, under the pretext of conducting investigations into the arson attack.
Palestinian activist Omar Dawabsheh told Quds Press that IDF forces stormed Duma at 2 a.m. on Tuesday and broke into the Dawabsheh's home, searched it and confiscated some of the family's possessions under the pretext of completing the investigation into the arson attack that killed 18-month-old Ali.
Omar added that the Israeli forces also stormed a number of houses and shops located in the vicinity of the Dawabsheh's home, and that they confiscated all the recordings they found in any surveillance cameras.
Omar also noted that the Dawabshehs set up a tent next to their home so as to receive those coming to offer condolences and express solidarity over Ali's murder.
A number of villages near Nablus were stormed by Israeli forces in recent weeks, which resulted in the eruption of clashes between Israeli forces and the residents of the stormed villages, especially in Talfit and Qablan where the Israeli forces established military roadblocks at the entry to these villages and attempted to restrain residents' movement and examine their ID documents.
Ali Dawabsheh was burned to death in his home last Friday in an arson attack believed to be perpetrated by Israeli settlers in what is known as "price tag" revenge attacks. Ali's parents, Saad and Reham, remain in a critical condition following the attack, as does his four-year-old brother Ahmed.
The IDF searched the Dawabshehs' house in the village of Duma, near Nablus, under the pretext of conducting investigations into the arson attack.
Palestinian activist Omar Dawabsheh told Quds Press that IDF forces stormed Duma at 2 a.m. on Tuesday and broke into the Dawabsheh's home, searched it and confiscated some of the family's possessions under the pretext of completing the investigation into the arson attack that killed 18-month-old Ali.
Omar added that the Israeli forces also stormed a number of houses and shops located in the vicinity of the Dawabsheh's home, and that they confiscated all the recordings they found in any surveillance cameras.
Omar also noted that the Dawabshehs set up a tent next to their home so as to receive those coming to offer condolences and express solidarity over Ali's murder.
A number of villages near Nablus were stormed by Israeli forces in recent weeks, which resulted in the eruption of clashes between Israeli forces and the residents of the stormed villages, especially in Talfit and Qablan where the Israeli forces established military roadblocks at the entry to these villages and attempted to restrain residents' movement and examine their ID documents.
Ali Dawabsheh was burned to death in his home last Friday in an arson attack believed to be perpetrated by Israeli settlers in what is known as "price tag" revenge attacks. Ali's parents, Saad and Reham, remain in a critical condition following the attack, as does his four-year-old brother Ahmed.
Israeli occupation police on Wednesday morning stated they were not able to identify the settler who torched home of 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsheh, who was burned to death in the attack.
Israeli police spokeswoman, Luba Samri, in a statement on Tuesday said that the police was still working on the case, but needs more leads.
In a post on its official Facebook page, the police wrote that it “asks for the help of the public in the investigation of the arson and murder in Duma Village.”
“Anyone who has in their possession information or any detail that could help in deciphering the murder is asked to contact the phone number: 050-8386626,” wrote the police.
The current lead to the case is the Hebrew graffiti which says “the Messiah King will live,” a phrase more commonly associated with Chabad than with “hilltop youth” Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria. Likewise the word “revenge” that was also found was written in a script some say appears to indicate an Arab writer.
The statement raised questions and criticism, especially that IOF confiscated security cameras from Duma on Monday night.
According to i24 news, the attack is believed to have been carried out by at least two right-wing Jewish extremists.
Israeli Channel 10 said that security sources have pointed the finger towards an illegal outpost in the eastern Shilo area in the West bank which, according to the sources, have “a history” of hostility with the Palestinian villages in the area.
While the police recently arrested far-right activist Meir Ettinger, he has not been named as a suspect in the attack, said 124.
Ettinger, whose grandfather Meir Kahane founded the racist anti-Arab movement Kach, was arrested on Monday “because of his activities in a Jewish extremist organization,” a spokesman for the Shin Bet internal security service told AFP.
The court prolonged the incarceration of Meir Ettinger until at least Sunday, judicial sources said.
Police said Ettinger, who is aged around 20, was suspected of “nationalist crimes” but did not accuse him of direct involvement in last week’s firebombing of a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, in which a toddler was burned to death.
Haaretz reported Ettinger was linked to last month’s arson attack on the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The church was damaged and two people injured.
Israeli police spokeswoman, Luba Samri, in a statement on Tuesday said that the police was still working on the case, but needs more leads.
In a post on its official Facebook page, the police wrote that it “asks for the help of the public in the investigation of the arson and murder in Duma Village.”
“Anyone who has in their possession information or any detail that could help in deciphering the murder is asked to contact the phone number: 050-8386626,” wrote the police.
The current lead to the case is the Hebrew graffiti which says “the Messiah King will live,” a phrase more commonly associated with Chabad than with “hilltop youth” Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria. Likewise the word “revenge” that was also found was written in a script some say appears to indicate an Arab writer.
The statement raised questions and criticism, especially that IOF confiscated security cameras from Duma on Monday night.
According to i24 news, the attack is believed to have been carried out by at least two right-wing Jewish extremists.
Israeli Channel 10 said that security sources have pointed the finger towards an illegal outpost in the eastern Shilo area in the West bank which, according to the sources, have “a history” of hostility with the Palestinian villages in the area.
While the police recently arrested far-right activist Meir Ettinger, he has not been named as a suspect in the attack, said 124.
Ettinger, whose grandfather Meir Kahane founded the racist anti-Arab movement Kach, was arrested on Monday “because of his activities in a Jewish extremist organization,” a spokesman for the Shin Bet internal security service told AFP.
The court prolonged the incarceration of Meir Ettinger until at least Sunday, judicial sources said.
Police said Ettinger, who is aged around 20, was suspected of “nationalist crimes” but did not accuse him of direct involvement in last week’s firebombing of a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, in which a toddler was burned to death.
Haaretz reported Ettinger was linked to last month’s arson attack on the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The church was damaged and two people injured.
