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Dawabsha family, july 31 2015 burned by settlers |
8 aug 2015
Palestinian youths got injured in clashes that erupted with Israeli forces in Duma town to the south of Nablus city in the afternoon on Saturday.
Activist, Omar Dawabsheh, told the PIC reporter that a Palestinian young man was injured by Israeli rubber bullets in the back, while a few others suffered suffocation by Israeli tear gas.
Dawabsheh disclosed that the occupation forces clashed with Palestinian citizens in the wake of the funeral of martyr Saad Dawabsheh, the father of the infant Ali Dawabsheh who was burned alive with his family in Duma.
"Israeli patrols were deployed on the main road of the town and the valley adjacent to Shilo settlement. After the funeral ended, confrontations and clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians started," he explained.
Ambulances rushed to the scene and treated the wounded in the field, the activist Dawabsheh said.
Activist, Omar Dawabsheh, told the PIC reporter that a Palestinian young man was injured by Israeli rubber bullets in the back, while a few others suffered suffocation by Israeli tear gas.
Dawabsheh disclosed that the occupation forces clashed with Palestinian citizens in the wake of the funeral of martyr Saad Dawabsheh, the father of the infant Ali Dawabsheh who was burned alive with his family in Duma.
"Israeli patrols were deployed on the main road of the town and the valley adjacent to Shilo settlement. After the funeral ended, confrontations and clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians started," he explained.
Ambulances rushed to the scene and treated the wounded in the field, the activist Dawabsheh said.
By Robert Fantina
Following the savage murder of eighteen-month old Ali Dawabsheh, much of the world condemned this horrific crime which, according to CBC News, “shines a light on the growing lawlessness of extremist Jewish settlers that Israel is either unable or unwilling to contain”.
For the moment, we will ignore the fact that IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) terrorists operate with complete impunity, protecting settlers while they are in the very act of committing crimes against Palestinians, and look to the United States’ response to the burning death of this child. The U.S. condemned the attack, and then praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his own condemnation of the crime. But a White House press conference on July 31 is more telling regarding the U.S. response. Space prevents us from exploring the entire discussion of this unspeakable crime, but let us look at a few quotations from this briefing:
In Israel, there are separate laws for Israelis and for Arabs and Africans. They are subjected to very different systems when arrested; Arabs and Africans can be held almost indefinitely without charge, and without access to legal services, or even family members. Israelis must be charged with a crime within a matter of hours, or released, and they are entitled to legal representation from the start. This hardly sounds like the workings of a ‘strong democracy’, or a ‘very strong legal system’.
The source of Mr. Toner’s faith in the Israeli ‘system’ is unknown. Might it come from Israel’s investigation into the shooting deaths by Israeli soldiers of four children on a Gaza beach last summer? No, the soldiers were found innocent of any crime. Could Mr. Toner’s faith come from the investigation into the shooting in the back, again by Israeli soldiers, of two teenagers in May of 2014? Those murders were recorded on surveillance camera and broadcast around the world. But no, those soldiers, too, were found innocent of any wrongdoing. Perhaps Mr. Toner’s faith in the Israeli ‘system’ stems from the way Israeli soldiers prevent settlers from desecrating the Al-Aqsa mosque. No, that can’t be it, since they escort and protect the settlers while they are in the act of desecrating the mosque. Where Mr. Toner’s faith in the Israeli ‘system’ comes from must remain a mystery.
And as long as billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money continues to flow into the apartheid regime of Israel, more Palestinian men, women and children will be killed with complete impunity; the dire conditions under which Palestinians live will only worsen, and Israel will increasingly be seen as an international pariah, a rogue nation with a criminal government.
Following the savage murder of eighteen-month old Ali Dawabsheh, much of the world condemned this horrific crime which, according to CBC News, “shines a light on the growing lawlessness of extremist Jewish settlers that Israel is either unable or unwilling to contain”.
For the moment, we will ignore the fact that IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) terrorists operate with complete impunity, protecting settlers while they are in the very act of committing crimes against Palestinians, and look to the United States’ response to the burning death of this child. The U.S. condemned the attack, and then praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his own condemnation of the crime. But a White House press conference on July 31 is more telling regarding the U.S. response. Space prevents us from exploring the entire discussion of this unspeakable crime, but let us look at a few quotations from this briefing:
- Mark C. Toner, Deputy Spokesperson: “Well, look, as the statement said, we’ve obviously condemned this attack. We welcome the fact that Prime Minister Netanyahu did order Israel’s security forces to use all means at their disposal to apprehend the murderers of what he called an act of terrorism and to bring them to justice, and we obviously urge all sides in this moment to maintain calm and avoid escalating tensions”.
- Question: “Do you have confidence in the Israeli Government doing that?”
- Toner: “Certainly.”
- Question: “Do you have evidence that they have done that in the past? For instance, in the case of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, who was burned alive last year, there have been no convictions up to now –“
- Toner: “And we’ve spoken about this before. We have confidence – Israel is a vibrant, strong democracy with strong institutions and a very strong legal system, so yes, we have confidence in it.”
- Question: “If you were to be asked on evidence where actually the Israelis held these terrorists accountable and put them in prison, can you cite any?”
- Toner: “Not off the top of my head, but we have faith in the system.”
- “Israel is a vibrant, strong democracy with strong institutions and a very strong legal system”.
In Israel, there are separate laws for Israelis and for Arabs and Africans. They are subjected to very different systems when arrested; Arabs and Africans can be held almost indefinitely without charge, and without access to legal services, or even family members. Israelis must be charged with a crime within a matter of hours, or released, and they are entitled to legal representation from the start. This hardly sounds like the workings of a ‘strong democracy’, or a ‘very strong legal system’.
- Toner stated that Israel is investigating this crime, with the goal of bringing the perpetrators to justice, and said, when questioned, that he had every confidence that Israel would do so. When asked if he had evidence of Israel investigating such crimes in the past, and holding Israeli terrorists accountable, he said “Not off the top of my head, but we have faith in the system”.
The source of Mr. Toner’s faith in the Israeli ‘system’ is unknown. Might it come from Israel’s investigation into the shooting deaths by Israeli soldiers of four children on a Gaza beach last summer? No, the soldiers were found innocent of any crime. Could Mr. Toner’s faith come from the investigation into the shooting in the back, again by Israeli soldiers, of two teenagers in May of 2014? Those murders were recorded on surveillance camera and broadcast around the world. But no, those soldiers, too, were found innocent of any wrongdoing. Perhaps Mr. Toner’s faith in the Israeli ‘system’ stems from the way Israeli soldiers prevent settlers from desecrating the Al-Aqsa mosque. No, that can’t be it, since they escort and protect the settlers while they are in the act of desecrating the mosque. Where Mr. Toner’s faith in the Israeli ‘system’ comes from must remain a mystery.
- Toner: “Well, I mean, we’ve been pretty vocal in the last days about our – regarding settlements. We put out a statement the other day.” Well now, what more can one ask? The White House put out a statement condemning settlements. It was probably tucked into the envelope containing the check for $9 million that the U.S. sends to Israel every day. Perhaps this was the message: “Please reconsider any new settlements. The enclosed check can be used in any way you wish, including for the construction of new settlements.”
- Toner: “We continue to believe strongly that achieving a two-state solution remains in the best – remains the best path forward for Israel’s long-term security.” Please note that nothing is ever said, by any U.S. spokesperson or government official, about Palestine’s long-term security. It does not appear that Israel is in any grave danger of being wiped off the map, although the same cannot be said for Palestine. Israel has ‘confiscated’ (read: stolen) over 80% of Palestinian land since 1947, and the rate of land theft is ever-increasing. As ‘vocal’ as Mr. Toner says the U.S. has been about illegal settlements, the U.S. has done nothing to stop or even slow them.
And as long as billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money continues to flow into the apartheid regime of Israel, more Palestinian men, women and children will be killed with complete impunity; the dire conditions under which Palestinians live will only worsen, and Israel will increasingly be seen as an international pariah, a rogue nation with a criminal government.
The heads of Catholic churches, Friday, filed a complaint against the chief of extremist Jewish group, Lehava, for advocating the burning of churches.
According to a press release issued by the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries on Friday, Father Pietro Felet, Secretary General of the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries in the Holy Land, filed an official complaint to the Israeli police, Friday morning, against the leader of radical Israeli organization Lehava, Bentsi Gopstein, demanding he be brought to justice for advocating the torching of churches.
The complaint, filed on behalf of over than twenty patriarchs and bishops, expressed “concern over what was described to be growing security challenges to churches, people and buildings alike, in areas under Israel's sovereignty or control.”
The complaint referred to several attacks that targeted churches and Christian holy sites by radical parties and hinted that in vast majority of these criminal incidents criminals were not brought to justice.
The complaint was referring to remarks made by Gopstein during a panel debating Jewish religious law, last Tuesday night in Jerusalem.
Responding to a question on whether he “is in favor of burning churches in the Land of Israel,” Gopstein answered: “Did the Rambam rule to destroy [idol worship] or not? Idol worship must be destroyed. It’s simply yes – what’s the question?”
He was reported in another version as answering, apparently alluding to the rulings of the 12th century Jewish ‘sage’ Mainonides “The law is straightforward; Maimonides’ interpretation is that one must burn idolatry. There’s not a single rabbi that would deliberate that fact. I expect the government of Israel to carry that out.”
When the panel moderator warned him that the panel was filmed and if the recording get to police he would be arrested, Gopstein said: “That’s the last thing that bothers me. If that’s the truth then I’m prepared to sit 50 years in prison for it.”
The complaint was made one day after the Palestinian Foreign Ministry issued a press statement vehemently denouncing the Israeli government’s “tolerance toward Gobshtai and other extremists who advocate murdering and terrorizing Palestinians and setting fire to their property.”
The Foreign Ministry held the Israeli government fully responsible for the consequences of such “racist and provocative” calls that have resulted in murdering Palestinians in the most atrocious fashion, particularly the burning to death of 18-month-old Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabsha and critically injury of his family members in an arson attack on a house in the Nablus village of Douma.
The Ministry, given a rise in the cycle of violence and counter-violence, slammed Israeli government’s policies and disregard of rising bloody extremism as responsible for the proliferation of the culture of hatred, violence and racism.
In December 2014, several Lehava members, including Gopstein himself, who lives in a settlement inside the West Bank city of Hebron, were detained on charges of setting fire to a first-grade classroom at Jerusalem's Hand-in-Hand school on November 29. Daubed on the walls in Hebrew were slogans reading 'Death to Arabs' and 'There's no coexistence with cancer.'
Lehava activists follow the teachings of the late Meir Kahane, a virulently anti-Arab rabbi whose Kach party and another offshoot were banned in 1994 after one of its members gunned down 29 Muslims in a flashpoint mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron.
According to a press release issued by the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries on Friday, Father Pietro Felet, Secretary General of the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries in the Holy Land, filed an official complaint to the Israeli police, Friday morning, against the leader of radical Israeli organization Lehava, Bentsi Gopstein, demanding he be brought to justice for advocating the torching of churches.
The complaint, filed on behalf of over than twenty patriarchs and bishops, expressed “concern over what was described to be growing security challenges to churches, people and buildings alike, in areas under Israel's sovereignty or control.”
The complaint referred to several attacks that targeted churches and Christian holy sites by radical parties and hinted that in vast majority of these criminal incidents criminals were not brought to justice.
The complaint was referring to remarks made by Gopstein during a panel debating Jewish religious law, last Tuesday night in Jerusalem.
Responding to a question on whether he “is in favor of burning churches in the Land of Israel,” Gopstein answered: “Did the Rambam rule to destroy [idol worship] or not? Idol worship must be destroyed. It’s simply yes – what’s the question?”
He was reported in another version as answering, apparently alluding to the rulings of the 12th century Jewish ‘sage’ Mainonides “The law is straightforward; Maimonides’ interpretation is that one must burn idolatry. There’s not a single rabbi that would deliberate that fact. I expect the government of Israel to carry that out.”
When the panel moderator warned him that the panel was filmed and if the recording get to police he would be arrested, Gopstein said: “That’s the last thing that bothers me. If that’s the truth then I’m prepared to sit 50 years in prison for it.”
The complaint was made one day after the Palestinian Foreign Ministry issued a press statement vehemently denouncing the Israeli government’s “tolerance toward Gobshtai and other extremists who advocate murdering and terrorizing Palestinians and setting fire to their property.”
The Foreign Ministry held the Israeli government fully responsible for the consequences of such “racist and provocative” calls that have resulted in murdering Palestinians in the most atrocious fashion, particularly the burning to death of 18-month-old Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabsha and critically injury of his family members in an arson attack on a house in the Nablus village of Douma.
The Ministry, given a rise in the cycle of violence and counter-violence, slammed Israeli government’s policies and disregard of rising bloody extremism as responsible for the proliferation of the culture of hatred, violence and racism.
In December 2014, several Lehava members, including Gopstein himself, who lives in a settlement inside the West Bank city of Hebron, were detained on charges of setting fire to a first-grade classroom at Jerusalem's Hand-in-Hand school on November 29. Daubed on the walls in Hebrew were slogans reading 'Death to Arabs' and 'There's no coexistence with cancer.'
Lehava activists follow the teachings of the late Meir Kahane, a virulently anti-Arab rabbi whose Kach party and another offshoot were banned in 1994 after one of its members gunned down 29 Muslims in a flashpoint mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Israeli forces, Saturday, violently quelled a rally organized in condemnation of the Israeli occupation and settlers crimes against the Palestinian people, the latest of which was settlers’ arson attack against a home in Nablus which left a toddler, and his father killed and critically injured his mother and 4-year-old brother.
Protesters, including Foreign and local activists participated in the rally which was organized by popular committees against the apartheid wall and settlements, carried the Palestinian flags and chanted slogans denouncing the Israeli occupation and its policies aimed at seizing Palestinian land and property.
WAFA correspondence said that Israeli soldiers attacked the rally, beating activists with the butts of their rifles, leaving many with injuries and bruises throughout their bodies.
The rally also reportedly called to provide protection to Beit al-Baraka building located at Jerusalem-Hebron main road and which settlers claim they have previously purchased.
Protesters, including Foreign and local activists participated in the rally which was organized by popular committees against the apartheid wall and settlements, carried the Palestinian flags and chanted slogans denouncing the Israeli occupation and its policies aimed at seizing Palestinian land and property.
WAFA correspondence said that Israeli soldiers attacked the rally, beating activists with the butts of their rifles, leaving many with injuries and bruises throughout their bodies.
The rally also reportedly called to provide protection to Beit al-Baraka building located at Jerusalem-Hebron main road and which settlers claim they have previously purchased.
A group of Israeli settlers attempted to burn another Palestinian house Saturday morning. The house is located on the way between Nablus and Jericho on the eastern side of Palestine.
Ghassaan Doughlas, in charge of the settlers file in the northern West Bank said that a group of settlers attacked the house of Mahmoud Ka'abneh with two cocktail bombs in the early hours of the morning.
The two bombs hit the walls of the house as the assailants missed the window.
the family managed to put the fire out, preventing another massacre by the settlers.
This arson attack was carried out a week after a Palestinian baby was burned to death when Israeli settlers attacked the house of Dawabsha family in the village of Doma near Nablus.
Ali,18 months old died immediately, meanwhile his father Sa'ad Dawabsha died of his wounds, while 5-year-old Ahmad and the mother Reham are still in intensive care, receiving treatment.
Settlers Attack Another Home in Douma
Extremist Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian home with fire bombs and rocks in the village of Douma, to the south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank on Saturday morning, Palestinian said.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an News Agency that “a number of extremist settlers hurled two fire bombs at the home of Mahmoud Fazza al-Kaabna.”
The fire bombs, Daghlas said, landed on the outer wall of the home near a window, but did not make it inside the house.
The attackers also hurled stones at the house, with one of them hitting al-Kaabna in the abdomen.
The settler attack took place a week after the deadly arson attack which killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha and his father Saad from the same village. The mother Riham and 4-year-old brother Ahmad are still struggling for their lives after they sustained third-degree burns on most of their bodies.
Ghassaan Doughlas, in charge of the settlers file in the northern West Bank said that a group of settlers attacked the house of Mahmoud Ka'abneh with two cocktail bombs in the early hours of the morning.
The two bombs hit the walls of the house as the assailants missed the window.
the family managed to put the fire out, preventing another massacre by the settlers.
This arson attack was carried out a week after a Palestinian baby was burned to death when Israeli settlers attacked the house of Dawabsha family in the village of Doma near Nablus.
Ali,18 months old died immediately, meanwhile his father Sa'ad Dawabsha died of his wounds, while 5-year-old Ahmad and the mother Reham are still in intensive care, receiving treatment.
Settlers Attack Another Home in Douma
Extremist Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian home with fire bombs and rocks in the village of Douma, to the south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank on Saturday morning, Palestinian said.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an News Agency that “a number of extremist settlers hurled two fire bombs at the home of Mahmoud Fazza al-Kaabna.”
The fire bombs, Daghlas said, landed on the outer wall of the home near a window, but did not make it inside the house.
The attackers also hurled stones at the house, with one of them hitting al-Kaabna in the abdomen.
The settler attack took place a week after the deadly arson attack which killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha and his father Saad from the same village. The mother Riham and 4-year-old brother Ahmad are still struggling for their lives after they sustained third-degree burns on most of their bodies.
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Sa’ad Mohammad Dawabsha 32
Medical sources have reported, Saturday, that Sa’ad Mohammad Dawabsha, the father of Ali, 18 months of age, who was burnt to death in an Israeli terrorist attack targeting their home last week, has succumbed to his serious wounds. The sources said Sa’ad, 32 years of age, died at the Soroka Israeli Medical Center in Be’er Sheba (Be’er as-Sabe’) of serious burns to 80% of his body. His wife, Reham Dawabsha, 27, suffered burns to 90% of her body, and their child, Ahmad, 5 years of age, suffered second-degree burns to 60% of his body. |
The Israeli side requested an autopsy, but the family rejected, and said his burial will be held Saturday in his village, Douma, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
After the death of the Palestinian father, the Central Command of the Israeli Army decided to increase military presence in the occupied West Bank, especially in the Nablus district, anticipating extended clashes with the Palestinians.
The infant, Ali Dawabsha, was burnt to death when Israeli terrorists firebombed the family home as they slept; his parents, and his brother Ahmad, four months of age, suffered serious burns and injuries, and were moved to Soroka and Tal HaShomer Medical Centers.
After the death of the Palestinian father, the Central Command of the Israeli Army decided to increase military presence in the occupied West Bank, especially in the Nablus district, anticipating extended clashes with the Palestinians.
The infant, Ali Dawabsha, was burnt to death when Israeli terrorists firebombed the family home as they slept; his parents, and his brother Ahmad, four months of age, suffered serious burns and injuries, and were moved to Soroka and Tal HaShomer Medical Centers.
