Friday, June 3, 2016
Palestine: Prime suspect in deadly W Bank arson attack released 2nd Jun 2016
By Anees Barghouthi
RAMALLAH, (AA) – The Israeli authorities released Wednesday the prime suspect in a notorious arson attack that occurred last summer in the West Bank that led to the death of three members of a Palestinian family, Israeli media reported.
According to Israel’s Channel 7, Meir Ettinger, 24, was released from jail after spending 10 months in administrative detention.
Ettinger, the channel reported, will not be allowed to enter the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem for periods of one year and six months, respectively.
On July 31 of last year, extremist Israeli settlers torched the home of the Palestinian Dawabsheh family in the town of Duma near the West Bank city of Nablus.
The attack claimed the lives of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh — and both of his parents — and severely injured Ali’s five-year-old brother, Ahmed.
The incident sent shockwaves across the Israeli-occupied territories and was met with international condemnation.
[Photo: An image released by Palestinian news agency Ma’an shows 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha – who was killed in an arson attack by Israeli settlers – with his parents [Reham Dawabsha right died of wounds]. Photo by Ma’an]
Qatar: 11 killed in labour accommodation fire
Interior ministry investigation under way to determine cause of fire that also left 12 people injured.
Eleven people have died in a fire at a labour accommodation in Qatar, the country's interior ministry said.
The ministry said the fire on Wednesday night, only reported a day later, also left 12 people injured.
The accommodation facility belonged to a company working on the Salwa Tourism Project, the ministry said on Twitter, adding that an investigation was ongoing to determine the cause of the fire.
The nationalities of the dead were not released. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, many of them South Asian, work in the Gulf Arab state.
An online news report said charred bodies were brought to a hospital morgue after the fire in Abu Samra in the south of the country.