Neo-Nazi Settler Wedding Guests Celebrate the Murder of Dead Baby Ali Dawabshe by Stabbing His Picture

The Chickens Come Home to Roost for the Zionist State

Following the release of a video clip, almost certainly leaked by Israel’s Shin Bet Internal Security Police, showing wedding guests at a far-right settler wedding party celebrating the firebombing and murder of 3 members of the Dawabshe family (the sole survivor 4 year old Ahmed is still in hospital) including the stabbing of a picture of the dead baby Ali, there has been an orgy of hypocrisy by Zionist  politicians.

 

Leader of the far-right Jewish Home Party Naftali Bennett has been outspoken in his condemnation of the wedding party.  This is the man who has previously taken pleasure in killing Arabs.

Screenshot of a video showing extremist Israeli Jewish wedding-goers celebrating the killings of the Dawabsha family. (screen capture: Channel 10)

At a Cabinet meeting he had an exchange with National Security Adviser Ya’akov Amidror about a prisoner release.  Bennett had a simple solution:

Bennett: “If you catch terrorists, you have to simply kill them.”

Amidror: “Listen, that’s not legal.”

Bennett: “I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my life – and there’s no problem with that.”

Education Minister Bennett waxed lyrical.  He ‘doubled down on his criticism of figures in the religious Zionist community for their condemnation of the Shin Bet, calling them hypocrites.’  

The even further right MK Bezalel ‘Beelzeebub’ Smotrich spoke of an “evil price tag ideology,” days after he had criticised those who call settler attacks against Palestinians terrorist.

Even Uri Ariel a far-right supporter of transfer had the audacity to say that “The clip published by Channel 10 news this evening is shocking and one cannot allow the activity of radical groups fueled by hate,”  This is the same Uri Ariel who has previously condemned those who called the neo-Nazi "hill top youth" "terrorists" and who had been responsible for the invasion by settler thugs of Al Aqsa Mosque.  Such is his devotion to the settler movement that in January 2012, Ariel admitted to giving IDF troop movement information to such militants in order to facilitate disruption of army activities.  

The hypocritical Zionist ‘left’ has waxed lyrical in its condemnation.  Isaac Herzog, leader of the Labour Party, termed the wedding guests “maniacs.”.  One wonders who armed these maniacs and allowed them to operate unhindered in the settlements.  Tzipi Livni,  the former Foreign Minister railed that “this is the group that wants to destroy the Jewish Israel, to destroy this state from within, to destroy the government from within and sow hate.”

This couldn’t be the same Tzipi Livni who was responsible for Operation Cast Lead in which some 1,400 civilians were killed. 

When Operation Protective Edge, which killed 2,200 Palestinians, including 550 children, was in full swing a popular chant amongst the Nationalist Right was ''There's No School Tomorrow, There's No Children Left in Gaza!'.  There was no condemnation of this or other outbursts of hatred against Palestinians or indeed that tiny minority of Israelis who took to the streets to protest against the war.

Chief of the racists and hate merchants, he of ‘the Arabs are voting in droves’, Benjamin Netanyahu ‘strongly condemned the "shocking images" in the wedding video.  

The context for the release of this video clip, whose date is unknown, is the arrest of 4 of the suspected arsonists who set fire to the Dawabshe’s home.  Shin Bet and the Israeli government has been under immense pressure to find the culprits.  The Israeli Police don’t do forensics and investigations.  As in the case of Palestinians they simply use torture to extract confessions.  What has been new in this case is that the Jewish youth believed responsible for the arson have also been tortured.

This has produced a canpaign by the Jewish Right against the torture of the Jewish youth involved.  Note that these hypocrites have no objection to torture per se, they have no problem with torturing Palestinians but they do object to such methods being used against the flower of the Zionist settler youth.  It is settled policy of the government and the courts that Shin Bet are allowed to use ‘moderate physical pressure’ i.e. torture against Palestinian detainees.  What is new is its use against Jews.  

Naftali  Bennett was quite explicit in this respect when he said that ‘“What was done to the Duma detainees is for certain not more, and probably less, than what is done regularly to Palestinian terror suspects,” he said.

There are not many Western countries, bearing in mind Israel's claim to be 'the only democracy in the Middle East' whose government ministers openly admit to the use of torture.

We should reject this hypocrisy.  The neo-Nazi settler youth are the product of the settler movement.  Both the Zionist right and left has supported and continues to support the settlers.  The killers of baby Ali Dawabshe and his parents learnt their trade in a settlement movement which has demonised the Palestinians for the past 47 years.  In order to justify the colonisation of Palestinian land, they had to dehumanise the Palestinians.  The racism of the settler wedding guests is not new.  They learned it as part of their education.  In a state founded and based on racism it is inevitable that there will be some who will take what they have learnt to its logical conclusion.

But the real objection to the settler wedding guests and the ‘hilltop youth’ (the ultra-racist Kahanists) is that some of them reject the Israeli state per se.  They want a Jewish theocracy, a halachic state.  This is the primary reason why there has now erupted a clash between the state and its Jewish terrorists.

Tony Greenstein 

Clip shows far-right wedding-goers celebrating Duma killings

Israeli youngsters, said to be friends of detainees in deadly firebombing, stab photo of 18-month-old victim; wave firebombs, rifles and knives at Jerusalem event

By Times of Israel staff December 23, 2015

Screenshot of a video showing extremist Israeli Jewish wedding-goers celebrating the killings of the Dawabsha family. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Footage released on Wednesday showed dozens of young Israeli right-wing extremists, said to be linked to the suspected perpetrators of the Dawabsha family murder, celebrating the killing at a wedding last week. The images in the clip immediately sparked wide condemnation.

The video, aired by Channel 10, shows revelers at the Jerusalem celebration waving knives, rifles, pistols and a Molotov cocktail during the wedding.

Amid the festivities, a photo of baby Ali Dawabsha, who was burned to death in the July 31 firebombing in the West Bank village of Duma, is shown being repeatedly stabbed.

The crowd in the video chants the lyrics of a song which include a verse from Judges 16:28, quoting Samson, blinded in Gaza, saying “let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes” — but changing the word Philistines to Palestine.

The couple whose wedding was being celebrated was said to be friends of Jewish extremists detained in connection with the firebombing attack.

The attack in Duma on July 31 killed three members of a Palestinian family. Only one member of the Dawabsha family — Ahmed, now 5 — 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 Saad succumbed to their injuries in the succeeding weeks.

Far-right Israeli wedding-goers stab a photo of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha, killed in a deadly firebombing attack, allegedly by Jewish extremists, in July 2015 (screen capture: Channel 10)

According to the TV report, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon broadcast the clip to settler leaders a 

few days ago, to underline that dozens of young extremists are passionately supportive of the alleged Jewish terrorists.

The TV report said the footage was a factor in the stream of statements of support from right-wing leaders for the Shin Bet security service in its battle against Jewish terrorism in the last few days.

According to Haaretz reporter Chaim Levinson on Twitter, the bride was arrested in the past for carrying out an attack against Palestinians, along with the wife of one of the main suspects in the Duma case. She received 350 hours of community service for the crime.

The video was met with harsh condemnation from across the political spectrum.

Minutes after the clip was aired, Zionist Union MK and former foreign minister Tzipi Livni got up before the Knesset and railed against the youngsters in the film, saying “this is the group that wants to destroy the Jewish Israel, to destroy this state from within, to destroy the government from within and sow hate.”

Far-right Israeli wedding-goers celebrate the killings of the Dawabsha family (screen capture: Channel 10)

Pointing at Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich, Livni said: “These are the people you protest being interrogated by the Shin Bet.”

“My Judaism is not the Judaism of those dancing on the blood of babies,” she added on Twitter.

Smotrich condemned the “evil price tag ideology,” referring to right-wing attacks against Palestinians, but attempted to disassociate himself from the extremists, saying it “is not the way of religious Zionism, period.”

“The demonic dance with the picture of the murdered baby represents a dangerous ideology and the loss of humanity,” he said, according the Israel National News website.

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog termed the revelers “maniacs.”

“Lowlifes, you forgot what it is to be Jewish. You disgrace the kippah, the prayer shawl, and the name of God. Those who dance at a wedding and celebrate the death of a baby in his sleep are not Jews and not Israeli. They should be locked up as soon as possible,” he said in a tweet.

In a statement, the Joint List of Arab parties said the Israeli government and defense minister, “who let the settlers attack Palestinians without facing punishment, are the first ones to blame for this terror network.”

The party urged Israeli society to “wake up” and see that “the hatred and terror are the inevitable result of military control and occupation of a civilian population.”

A far-right Israeli wedding-goer celebrates the murder of the Dawabsha family (screen capture: Channel 10)

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home), an outspoken supporter of the settlement movement, condemned the participants at the wedding.

“The clip published by Channel 10 news this evening is shocking and one cannot allow the activity of radical groups fueled by hate,” Ariel wrote on Facebook.

“Violence and support of violence deserve only condemnation. This is not the path of Zionism and this is not the path of the settlement movement,” wrote Ariel, who a day earlier had called for the Shin Bet to close down its division that deals with Jewish terror cases.

The video clip was also denounced by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, who said it went against Jewish tradition. Other religious figures also spoke out against it.

The video comes as the Shin Bet has faced criticism from some right-wing activists over claims that it has tortured suspects detained in connection with the Duma attack.

An unspecified number of Jewish suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack, which is being investigated as an act of terrorism. Details of the investigation, and the identity of the suspects, have been withheld from publication by a court-imposed gag order.

Earlier Wednesday, Education Minister Naftali Bennett doubled down on his criticism of figures in the religious Zionist community for their condemnation of the Shin Bet, calling them hypocrites.

Saad and Riham Dawabsha, with baby Ali. All three died when the Dawabsha home in the West Bank village of Duma was firebombed, by suspected Jewish extremists, on July 31, 2015 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Speaking at a conference of the right-wing weekly B’sheva, the Jewish Home party leader reiterated 

comments he made a day earlier denouncing right-wing extremists as “terrorists,” and said it was hypocritical to oppose interrogation methods considered acceptable against Palestinians.

“What was done to the Duma detainees is for certain not more, and probably less, than what is done regularly to Palestinian terror suspects,” he said.

See also Israeli Terror Suspect, Amiram Benoliel, Confesses to Dawabsheh Murder , Richard Silverstein

Israeli PM condemns video of Jewish extremists celebrating toddler's death Guardian 24.12.15.

When Jews are Tortured the Zionist Right Throws Stones and Protests - but it is Silent over the Torture of Palestinians

Elisha Odess, one of the suspected killers of Dawabshe family. Caption: “We only have the Lord Blessed be He. We only fear Him.”

Shorts

The Times of Israel reports that those suspect of the firebombing of the Dawabshe family in the West Bank village of Duma, three of whom died as a result, are being tortured. 

'Israeli detainees held in connection with an investigation into the fatal firebombing of a Palestinian home have alleged torture and abuse at the hands of their interrogators, as officials indicate they will move toward indictments in the case in the coming weeks.

One detainee reportedly alleged that he had tried to slit his wrists in despair over harsh interrogation methods, a claim swiftly denied by the Shin Bet security service.'

Several Jewish terror suspects have been arrested and are being interrogated by the Shin Bet on allegations of being involved with the July 31 firebombing of the Dawabshe family home in the Palestinian village of Duma.’

Two of Dawabsheh murder suspects in court

It is difficult to keep a straight face.  What torture?  The Israeli Police?  Surely not.  Palestinians are regularly tortured and the Zionist right call this 'anti-Semitism' and proudly proclaim that Israel’s security state is the most moral in the world.   Now, because of world pressure and because of internal political pressure too, Shabak (the security police) has been forced to move against those responsible.  Now there are cries of ‘torture’.

Right-wing Jewish extremists and police clash during a demonstration against the arrest of Jewish youth suspected of involvement in an arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma, December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

I have no doubt that these youths have been badly treated and quite likely tortured.  But the hypocrisy of the settlers and the Zionist right beggars belief.  We should oppose the torture of settler youth in the same way as we should oppose the torture of Palestinians or indeed anyone.  But those who support torture of one section of the Palestinians cannot complain when their supporters are also tortured.  

Another Times of Israel article Right-wing activist arrested after attacking cops reported that 

‘About three hundred demonstrators blocked traffic in the Chords Bridge area, near the main entrance to the capital, and some hurled stones at police officers. Police in turn rushed the violent protesters in a bid to disperse the rally, arresting six activists.

One of the suspects arrested in connection with the Dawabsha murder, December 3, 2015. Under a court-issued gag order, the identities of the suspects cannot be revealed. (Screen capture)

Six police officers were wounded by violence directed at them by a small minority of the protesters, a police statement said.’

Amiram Benoliel, 21, one of key suspects in Dawabsheh arson-murders. His name and that of all the others I’ve published is under Shabak gag order.

Now this is very strange.  The Knesset has passed legislation providing for 3 year minimum prison sentences for stone throwers and up to 20 years imprisonment in certain cases.  In addition the Police and military usually open fire on Palestinian stone throwers, either with rubber bullets or live ammunition.  Yet that didn’t happen here.  On the contrary the Police merely ‘rushed the violent protesters’ in a bid to disperse them and arrested 6 of them.  No mention of prosecuting the stone throwers.  Why?  Because they are Jewish of course.

Shabak Torture Interrogations Fail to Yield Murder Confessions

The Dawabsheh arson murders and the investigation in their aftermath offer a lesson in the abject failure of the Israeli security system in dealing with Jewish terror.  It is a system built, not on the normal standards of policing in the western world in which evidence is gathered, witnesses interviewed, scenes reconstructed; rather, the emphasis is on extracting confessions, often by brute force.  In the case of Palestinians this will often work because the system is entirely stacked against them.  Even if they refuse to confess to a crime for which they aren’t guilty, they know they will go before a judge who will never reject the “evidence” offered by the Shabak and prosecution.  So essentially, they have a choice: either they confess and accept a “deal” (on the State’s terms); or they maintain silence and are convicted on much heavier terms.

Netanel Porkovich, suspected of being an accessory to the Dawabsheh murders

But it’s different with Jewish suspects.  Ironically, Justice is supposed to be blind.  But in Israel it is judges who turn a blind eye to the ravages inflicted on Palestinian prisoners.  But when it comes to Jews, they can see 20-20.  They might disregard claims of torture by the defense if there is a confession.  But without one, they will likely refuse to accept the trumped-up dossiers normally offered in the cases of Palestinian suspects and routinely accepted by judges as confirming guilt.

That doesn’t work with the Jews.  Even the terrorists.  Because they’re Jews, after all.  They have rights, even the bad ones.  So a judge will not accept a manufactured body of evidence in the absence of some other definitive admission or proof of guilt.  The Jewish accused, even minors like some of those in this case, know this.  They know that if they keep their mouths shut they can beat the system.

If Shabak and the Israeli police were a competent force they would muster the investigative skills necessary to prove this case.  But either they don’t have the skills or they refuse to use them.  What have the arson experts done at the scene of the crime?  Where are the police officers interviewing potential witnesses?  I doubt much, if any of this is done in such cases.  I know for a fact that Israeli police never question Palestinian witnesses regarding such crimes.  Another quirk of Israel’s racist legal and policing approach.

That is why, according to news reports and claims by Defense Minister Bogie Yaalon, the State’s case against the four murder suspects is foundering.  Yaalon has, I thought with rather too much of a smirk, said that the State doesn’t have sufficient evidence to prove its case.  This is, on its face, preposterous.  When four terrorists burn a house down and kill three people, there are reams of evidence.  If they can’t solve this case with real evidence and policing techniques they’re either the worst police force in the world, they’re just phoning it in, or they don’t want to solve the case (or all three!).

Yaalon is part of a powerful campaign by the settler lobby seeking to quash the investigation.  This is a political movement which controls many levers of power in Israeli society and reaches into the most senior ministerial offices.  Yaalon is one of them, as are many, if not most other ministers in this government.  They say the crime was heinous.  They say they have no tolerance for it.  But out of the other side of their mouths they do all in their power to sabotage the investigation.

What I find especially odd about all crimes of Jewish terror is that the ideology that underpins it is essentially rejection of the (secular) State.  The attackers in this case have very publicly expressed their hate for both the State and Zionism.  The ideological godfather of the latest iteration of the “Jewish Revolt,” Meir Ettinger (Meir Kahane’s grandson), believes (like many extremist terrorists) that by mounting enough terror attacks against Palestinian targets, it will prove the state to toothless and eventually lead to its downfall.  The fall of the secular state, so this narrative goes, will lead to the founding of a Torah-true theocratic State, a Davidic monarchy.

Amiram Benoliel, 21, one of key suspects in Dawabsheh arson-murders. His name and that of all the others I’ve published is under Shabak gag order.  Shabak released its own statement about their motives:

It is an extremist anti-Zionist ideological group whose purpose to exploit violence to destroy the established order, by means of terror attacks which would advance their goals.

One of the suspects, Amiram Benoliel, explicitly rejected the jurisdiction of the Israeli court according to this Facebook post on the page of the Kahanist Jewish Voice (full Hebrew statement here).  He demanded to be tried by a halachic court (beyt din) knowing full well that settler rabbis would never convict him.  In fact, he noted that he wished to be tried before Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, who was recently quoted as saying it was permissible to kill both Christians and Muslims if they rejected the seven Noahide Laws.  Ariel leads the Temple Institute, seeking to destroy the Noble Sanctuary and replace it with the Jewish Third Temple.

Benoliel’s supporters are quoted as saying on his behalf during one of his earlier 2014 Shabak detentions:

“The only to which we are subject is the law of the Torah.  We are proud of him for paying the price for remaining true to Torah.”

They further claim that secular judges tasked with hearing his case are “criminals” and “disqualified from hearing evidence according to the laws of the Torah.”

In all other societies which are functional, when a terror network attacks the State itself there is a fast and firm response.  The forces of the State unite to attack terror and uproot it.  If they do not, they risk undermining the very basis for the State’s existence.  That is why George Washington reacted so strongly to Shays Rebellion and firmly put down this farmers’ revolt in Pennsylvania at the outset of the American Republic.  It’s also why Ben Gurion commanded Rabin to attack the Alta Lena, which was bringing weapons meant to enable a Lehi militia that would be independent of the Yishuv’s official military forces.  To survive, a State needs to enforce discipline and allegiance.  Those who reject its sovereignty are, or should be, enemies of the State.

The strange case of the settlers is that they are essentially enemies of the State, but the State embraces them anyway.  In effect, and this is the really crazy part, the State turns on itself; eating itself from within.

It will be interesting to watch who wins in this case.  Will the settlers prevail and sabotage justice?  Is there anyone on the other side fighting on behalf of justice?  I have, in fact, queried my usual Israeli sources on this matter and heard silence in return.  Who speaks for the victims?  In Israel when it comes to Palestinian victims, even murdered ones, it appears no one.

The Shabak is playing some role in resisting the settler narrative.  But in this case it may be less because it seeks justice and truth and more because it’s methods of torture are coming under such fierce attack by the supporters of the terrorists.

It’s astonishing for the terror lobby to shrey gevalt about torture.  Since when have they ever raised a finger to defend the most widely tortured group within the Israeli security system: Palestinians? Why should anyone give a s*** for them in this their hour of need?  At least Israeli Jewish human rights NGOs have denounced torture and other forms of abuse both against Jews and Palestinians. 

But the terror lobby hates Palestinians so much they can’t abide speaking even a single syllable on their behalf, even when it would support their own cause in the long run.

So just in case the hasbara brigade intends to raise this as an issue in the comment threads, I pre-empt your argument: show me a member of the Jewish terror lobby who’s ever articulated a 

principled, consistent position on torture.  Then we can talk.

My right-wing readers will also blanch at my use of terms like “criminal lobby” and “terror lobby.”  But take one look at the group defending virtually all Jewish terrorists: Honenu.  Uri Blau, in his masterful investigative series, determined that American Jews sent nearly $250-million over the last five years to support settlements and other illegal and violent acts of insurrection.  Honenu has delivered nearly $40,000 to convicted terrorists like Avi Popper and their families.  Can you imagine a U.S. NGO raising funds to support convicted al Qaeda or white supremacist murderers in U.S. jails and giving the funds directly to the convicted criminals themselves?  What country in its right mind would countenance such behavior?  But Israel does.

As an addendum, I’ve e mailed the State Department press office asking for a comment on the presence of American citizens among the circles of the most rabid settler terrorists.  That includes Israel Keller, who is one of the four suspected Dawabsheh murderers.  I asked also if State would comment on the tax-deduction the U.S. government gives for those $250-million in donations which directly subvert U.S. policy regarding settlements.  The message was sent two days ago. Apparently, they’re not hurrying to reply.

There should, of course, be a tumultuous clamor from the international community and Diaspora Jewish groups against the looming failure of the Dawabsheh prosecution.  They should, as they did when it appeared earlier that Israel wouldn’t even bring charges, demand transparency and accountability.  There should be demands in no uncertain terms that if Israel doesn’t solve the case it will be immediately filed before the International Criminal Court, just as the Mavi Marmara case has been.  That would stuff a sock in the mouth of the criminal lobby otherwise known as settlers. Where are those voices? 

Tzur Israel Bengusi, teenager suspected terror cell member

When Settlers are Killed – Israel’s Military/Police State Goes on Offensive – When Palestinian Dawabshe family is burnt alive nothing is done

At the end of August settlers, who were seen running off in the direction of the nearest settlement in Duma, set alight to the house of the Dawabshe family in Duma village.  Out of the four family members, just one – an infant – is till alive.  The parents and another child are dead.  Fires were lit at the entrance to the building to make sure that the family couldn’t escape.

What has been the response of the Israeli authorities?  Despite promises to detain and arrest the culprits, absolutely nothing.  Indeed theonly raids they carried out were on other family members of the Dawabshe’s.  

Moshe Yalon has admitted that the Israeli police, Shin Bet, know who is responsible.  He told a group of young Likud activists that he was ‘protecting sources’ and thus they couldn’t be arrested. 

Contrast this with those who killed the 2 settlers.  Hundreds of troops are sent to smash up Palestinian villages, shoot, beat and arrest any and everyone.  Houses are demolished and the full panapoly of Israeli state terrorism is employed.  But when it came to the Dawabshe family none of this happened.  There were no raids on the settlements.  There were no house demolitions.  No searches, no nothing.  After all Palestinian life is cheap.

True Netanyahu visited a hospital and made a few PR speeches about how much they condemn the attack on the Dawabshe family.  And then?  Nothing.

This is the reality of the Apartheid state of Israel.  Because the West Bank is a part of Israel today.   There is no Green Line, on Israeli maps it doesn’t exist.  It only appears outside Israel to ward off accusations that Israel is ruling in perpetuity over nearly 4 million Palestinians who have no democratic rights whatsoever.

It should be added that Israel’s accomplice is the Palestinian Authority.  It acts as Israel’s security contractor.  It does the dirty work and is rewarded with American and European aid.  It perpetuates the idea of a 2 State solution when no such solution is possible today, not that it ever was.  Its complicity in ‘the peace process’ helps maintain the Zionist camouflage that the present situation is a temporary one whereas the obvious truth is that it is   permanent.

Tony Greenstein

Palestinian protesters stand amid blazes of fire during clashes in the West Bank village of Burin on October 3, 2015.AFP

 Palestinians report more than 100 wounded after violent clashes erupt in West Bank 

Less than a day after deadly attack in Jerusalem's Old City, Israel Defense Forces carry out numerous arrest operations.

By Amira Hass | Oct. 4, 2015 | 2:11 PM

Violent clashes broke out Sunday morning across the West Bank between Palestinian youths and Israeli security forces.

Israel's military deployed hundreds of troops in the West Bank following a drive-by shooting that killed a Jewish settler couple [AP]

Palestinians report that since the terrorist attacks in Jerusalem's Old City, in which Nehemia Lavie and Aharon Benita were killed and two were wounded, in addition to a separate attack that left a 15-year-old teen wounded, more than 100 Palestinians were wounded by gunfire and teargas in clashes with the army. Palestinians also report attacks by settlers. Demonstrators are protesting the Israel Police ban on non-resident Palestinians from entering the Old City. 

Zionist settlers, illegal colonists coming from all over the world to steal and occupy Palestinian land, armed with a green light to shoot and kill ...

The confrontations broke out at the Atara checkpoint north of Bir Zeit, at the Bayt Furik checkpoint, at the Al-Arub refugee camp between Bethlehem and Hebron, the Jalazun refugee camp north of Ramallah, and Jerusalem's Old City and Isawiyya neighborhood. The police have blocked entrance into Isawiyya, the home of Fadi Alon, who was shot to death by the police after moderately wounding a 15-year-old in Jerusalem's Musrara neighborhood.

Palestinians cast doubts on the Israeli report that Alon tried to stab a Jew. Based on a video that was distributed, they report that a group of Jews attacked him and called on the police to shoot him without reason.

Israeli soldiers patrol a street during an Israeli army raid in the West Bank City of  Nablus on Saturday.
(Photo: Reuters)

Before dawn on Sunday, a large military force broke into the Jenin refugee camp and surrounded the home of Qays a-Sa'adi, a member of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. It remains unknown whether he was in the home when it was hit by a LAW missile and destroyed.

At least 18 Palestinians were wounded, some seriously, in clashes that erupted between the army and youths. Three were arrested. A special army force entered the Arab hospital and arrested one of the patients, Karm al-Masri, 23, hospital officials told the Ma'an news agency.

The youth was hospitalized two days ago because of a broken hand, according to the hospital. While dragging Masri through the building stairwell toward the outside, the soldiers broke hospital surveillance cameras, the hospital director reported.

Around 2 A.M., army forces entered the village of Surda, north of Ramallah, in which lives the family of the terrorist from Saturday night's Old City attack, 19-year-old Mohannad Hallabi. The troops entered from different directions, accompanied by gunfire. According to the report, Palestinian youths spread out in the village streets late in the evening to protect the Hallabi home.

The soldiers dispersed them with teargas, stun grenades and live fire. According to the report, armed Palestinians also shot at the soldiers, who arrived by foot and in military vehicles. The force entered the home, conducted a search, interrogated the father and confiscated some of the terrorist's effects. The family removed all the home's contents, expecting the army to demolish it, although it had yet to receive a demolition order.

A group of Palestinian youths danced Saturday night next to the house, praising Hallabi and his deed, while his parents stood on the side, shocked and mute.

There were clashes between Palestinian youths and soldiers next to the Jalazun refugee camp, northeast of Surda. Soldiers shot and damaged and Palestinian ambulance, according to a Palestinian report. Two volunteers accompanying the medical crew were wounded.

There were also clashes in the Hebron area. Palestinians reported that a firebomb was thrown at a military jeep in Halhul, and a homemade explosive device was thrown an army position in Bayt Umar. Soldiers fired teargas and sponge bullets at Palestinian demonstrators both there and in other Palestinian communities in the Hebron area.

Three days have passed since the murder of the Henkin couple, and Palestinians in the West Bank know they have to drive cautiously on main arteries. Some reported hearing warnings from Palestinian security representatives. Official Palestinian sources have been reporting attacks and provocations by settlers in villages and in the areas of Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah. 

Immediately after the Saturday night terror attack in Jerusalem, Israelis attacked Burin, south of Nablus, setting village fields and groves on fire, according to Palestinian reports. The Israelis reportedly descended from the settlements of Yizhar and Bracha.

Palestinian media also reported on Israeli citizens, most likely settlers, attacking and wounding a 65-year-old security guard in Yatta's Sheikh Park. Another group of Israelis damaged the car of a Palestinian doctor at Reef Junction, south of Hebron. Others attacked the Dana family home in Hebron, next to Kiryat Arba, and broke into the A-Salayma neighborhood.

The army on Sunday morning set up temporary checkpoints on roads across the West Bank, causing long delays for Palestinian drivers and passengers. According to a Voice of Palestine report, the road between North Ramallah and Nablus was closed during the morning hours because of gatherings of settlers on the roadside and clashes between Palestinian youths and soldiers.  Nablus on Saturday.
(Photo: Reuters)