Friday, July 31, 2015

Abbas wants ICC to probe killing of toddler

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said he would appeal to the International Criminal Court to investigate Friday's arson attack by suspected Israeli settlers in the West Bank that killed a Palestinian toddler.

"We are immediately preparing the file that will be submitted to the ICC," Abbas told reporters, while also denouncing "war crimes and crimes against humanity committed each day by Israelis against the Palestinian people."

The 18-month-old Palestinian child was killed due to a house fire suspected to have been set by Jewish extremists in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israeli police said. Several people were also injured.

The Palestine Liberation Organization also said it holds the Israeli government "fully responsible" for the death of the toddler, an official said.

"We hold the Israeli government fully responsible for the brutal assassination of the toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha," PLO official Saeb Erekat said in a statement. "This is a direct consequence of decades of impunity given by the Israeli government to settler terrorism."

Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the “Price Tag” slogan used in the past by extremist Israelis was daubed on the walls of the family home that had been torched in a village near the West Bank city of Nablus.

“This is a suspected attack with nationalist motives,” Samri said. She said Israeli security forces were at the scene.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack “an act of terrorism in every respect.”

“I am shocked over this reprehensible and horrific act,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “This is an act of terrorism in every respect.”

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon added: “The fire and the murder of the Palestinian toddler is an act of terrorism,” Yaalon said in a statement, after the attack in the village of Doma, near Nablus.

“We will not allow terrorists to take the lives of Palestinians.”

Following the attack Israeli police have imposed restrictions on Palestinian access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a mosque official told the Palestinian Ma'an news agency. He also said that men under 50 will not be allowed to attend Friday prayers. However, there were no restrictions on women entering the mosque.

Meanwhile, Jordan condemned the Friday attack as an "ugly crime" commited by suspected Jewish settlers. "This ugly crime could have been avoided if the Israeli government had not ignored the rights of the Palestinian people and turned its back on peace... in the region," government spokesman Mohammed Momani said.

   alarabiya.net
31/7/15
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1 comment :

  1. Hamas said Friday that the terror attack in the village of Duma makes every Israeli a legitimate target, Israel Radio reported Friday.
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