Palestinians look at the damage as they stand in a
house set on fire by Israeli settlers and where 18-month-old
Palestinian toddler Ali Sa’ad Dawabsheh died on July 31, 2015, in the
West Bank village of Duma. (AFP)
Israeli
settlers have conducted yet another arson attack against Palestinian
property by setting ablaze hundreds of acres of open land in the
occupied West Bank, officials say.
Local sources and
senior Palestinian officials confirmed on Sunday that the arson attack
was carried out near the village of Burin, located south of Nablus.
There has been no word on possible casualties.
The
latest arson attack comes amid boiling anger among Palestinians over
the death of two members of a family in a similar attack by settlers on
July 31. The 18-month-old toddler of the Dawabsheh family, identified as
Ali, burned to death after extremist settlers firebombed the house in
the village of Duma near Nablus.
His father, Sa’ad, succumbed to his burns on Saturday.
Thousands of Palestinians poured onto the streets in Duma to attend the mass funeral ceremony for Sa’ad. Israeli forces fire tear gas toward Palestinians during clashes on August 8, 2015, in the West Bank village of Duma. (AFP photo)
Meanwhile,
Palestinian medical sources say the mother and their 4-year-old son,
who were also severely burned in the attack, remain in critical
condition.
In recent years, Israeli settlers have carried out
various attacks on Palestinian property in the West Bank and al-Quds
(Jerusalem).
Settlers, mostly armed, regularly attack Palestinian
villages and farms and set fire to their mosques, olive groves and other
properties.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120
illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian
territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.
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