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(JTA) – Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian youth they said was hurling firebombs at Israelis and injured three alleged accomplices. The incident occurred Thursday night in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency Ma’an. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that “three suspects exited a vehicle adjacent to the community of…
JERUSALEM – Arson was not the cause of a fire that damaged the Duma home of a key witness in a deadly attack last year in the same West Bank Palestinian village, police believe. Ibrahim Dawabsheh, the owner of the house, and his wife escaped from the burning home early Sunday morning and were treated…
The Palestinian child whose brother and parents were killed in a July firebombing by Israeli Jewish extremists met soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo in Madrid. Ahmad Dawabshe, 5, arrived at the Real Madrid soccer club headquarters in Madrid Thursday accompanied by his grandfather, where he met a number of players including his idol, the Maan news…
The main suspect in the deadly firebombing of a Palestinian family’s home in the West Bank village of Duma said he was tortured during his interrogations and that is why he confessed. Amiram Ben-Uliel, 21, of Jerusalem, was charged in January with three counts of murder. Three members of the Dawabshe family — an 18-month-old…
The groom from the wedding where Jewish revelers were captured on video celebrating the deaths of members of a Palestinian family in a firebombing has been charged with animal abuse. Yakir Eshbal, who was arrested and questioned after the wedding video was made public, was indicted Tuesday along with three friends. The indictment filed in…
YISHUV HADAAT, West Bank – The caves around this windy settler outpost, whose name is Hebrew for “Of Sound Mind,” have served as places of meditation and prayer – and, according to Israel – staging ground for the worst Jewish militant attack on Palestinians in years. It was from Yishuv Hadaat, prosecutors say, that 21-year-old…
An accused Jewish extremist with dual Israeli and American citizenship was released from an Israeli prison after being jailed without charges for five months. Mordechai Meyer, 18, of the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, was set free Monday after being under administrative detention since August for his suspected involvement in an arson attack more…
JERUSALEM — The groom from the wedding where Jewish revelers were captured on video celebrating the deaths of members of a Palestinian family in a firebombing reportedly has been arrested. The arrest of Yakir Ashbal brings to four the number of wedding celebrants who were arrested Tuesday, according to reports in the Israeli media. A…
