2 Jewish extremists charged for torching tent

Two alleged right-wing extremists — 19-year-old Avi Gafni and an unidentified minor — have been charged over the arson of a Bedouin tent last month, Israeli police announce on Monday. Gafni is a resident of Beit Shemesh, according to Channel 10.

A tent was torched and Hebrew-language graffiti sprayed in a West Bank Bedouin village last month in what residents and an NGO said was another suspected attack by extremists.

The village is near a wildcat Jewish settlement outpost where police detained several people in raids linked to a July firebombing in the West Bank Palestinian village of Duma before later releasing them. Three members of the Dawabsha family were killed in that attack, with the third, the mother, Riham, succumbing to her wounds last night.

The graffiti, which read “administrative revenge,” seemed to refer to the internment without charge — known as administrative detention — of three suspected Jewish extremists after the Duma firebombing attack.

— AFP contributed