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| Palestinian family targeted in suspected extremist attack | |
| 2015-12-23 | |
A Paleostinian family was attacked with smoke grenades early Tuesday morning in their West Bank home in what police are investigating as a suspected Jewish bad boy attack. The attackers broke a window of a house in Beitillu near Ramallah, in which a couple and their 9-month-old baby boy were sleeping, and threw in the grenades. There were no injuries in the attack. The words "Revenge" and "Greetings, prisoners of Zion" were found sprayed on the wall of an adjacent building, an apparent reference to Jewish suspects being held in connection with a deadly arson attack six months ago in the Paleostinian village of Duma. In an interview with Army Radio, Husain al Najjar, the father, said the attack woke his family in the early hours of the morning. "Settlers came at 1:30 at night and wrote on the wall outside and broke the glass [window]," he said. "The house is still full of gas. The neighbors came and helped get us out of house. Thank God nothing serious happened." He claimed that the house was attacked by settlers a year ago as well, and that his neighbors have also suffered multiple attacks. "I just want to live in quiet -- for me and all people," al Najjar said. Security forces and officials from the Civil Administration, which governs Paleostinians in Israeli-controlled areas of the West Bank, arrived at the scene along with police, who opened an investigation into the attack as a suspected "nationalistic crime." The attack in Duma on July 31 killed three members of a Paleostinian family. Only one member of the Dawabsha family -- four-year-old Ahmed -- survived the attack, and remains hospitalized in Israel. The 18-month-old baby Ali was killed on the night of the attack, while parents Riham and Sa'ad gave up the ghost in the succeeding weeks. An unspecified number of Jewish suspects have been incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in connection with the attack, which is being investigated as an act of terrorism, and prosecutors say they are preparing to indict them. Details of the investigation, and the identity of the suspects, have been withheld from publication by a court-imposed gag order. On Monday, dozens of right-wing protesters attempted to block a highway leading into Jerusalem, but were prevented from doing so by law enforcement officers, a police spokesperson said. Violence broke out on Sunday night during a similar, but larger demonstration by right-wing activists in the same area, under Jerusalem's Chords Bridge, to protest the ongoing incarceration of suspects in the case. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 "Greetings, prisoners of Zion" were found sprayed on the wall of an adjacent building, an apparent reference to Jewish suspects being held "prisoners of Zion" sounds more sarcastic than being just a reference. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-12-23 08:34 |
| #2 A small dose of their own medicine. And nobody was even injured! |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-12-23 03:16 |
| #1 What goes around |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-12-23 01:36 |