Duma survivor Ahmed Dawabsha rehospitalized with fever, infections

Less than three weeks after he was released from an Israeli hospital, where he had spent a year recovering from grievous wounds sustained during an alleged Jewish terror attack that killed the rest of his family, Ahmed Dawabsha was readmitted on Wednesday following a deterioration in his health.

Dawabsha, 6, was experiencing high fever and bouts of vomiting, family members told the Palestinian Maan news agency.

Doctors at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan said the six-year-old appeared to be suffering from infections, and were keeping him under observation. He was expected to remain in the hospital for several days.

Dawabsha was released from Sheba on July 22, almost a year to the day after he was badly burned in an arson attack on his home that killed his parents and baby brother.

Since then he has been returning to the hospital several times a week for ongoing treatment.

Dawabsha spent the last year in Sheba’s Children’s Hospital, where he was treated for second- and third-degree burns over 60 percent of his body caused in the July 31, 2015 attack in the West Bank village of Duma.

Amiram Ben-Uliel, 21, of Jerusalem, and an unnamed 16-year-old minor were indicted in January in the attack, which led to the immediate death of 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha and, soon after, the deaths of his parents, Riham and Saad. Ben-Uliel was indicted for murder; the minor, who is not alleged to have directly participated in the firebombing, was charged as an accomplice.