Palestinian toddler burned to death in settlers’ arson attack

Palestinian toddler burned to death in settlers’ arson attack

 

July 31, 2015 By FalastinNews Staff 

 

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NABLUS, — A Palestinian toddler was burned to death while three of his family members were injured at dawn Friday after a group of settlers deliberately set fire in two homes in Duma town south of Nablus.
The one-and-a-half years old toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha died after sustaining serious burns, said the local activist Ghassan Daghlas.
His mother and father, Riham and Saad, and their son Ahmad, 4, also sustained moderate injuries and were evacuated to a nearby hospital, he added.
Daghlas clarified that the group of settlers from nearby settlements also threw firebombs at a second home belonging to Maamoon Dawabsha, located at the entrance to the town.
Racist graffiti and anti-Arab slogans were sprayed across both homes reading “revenge” and “long live the Messiah” in Hebrew, Daghlas added.
Shortly after the arson attack, the Palestinian Authority held the Israeli government fully responsible for “the heinous crime.”
This crime would not have happened if the Israeli government didn’t insist on settlement expansion and settlers’ protection, spokesman for the PA Nabil Abu Roudeina said.
He also charged that the international community’s continued silence paved the way for more Israeli settler attacks.
He vowed to prosecute all those responsible for and involved in the crime before the international criminal court.
Source: english.palinfo.com