Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is blaming the violence that has roiled the region for the last several months on extremist Israeli attacks against Palestinians.
Said Abu Khdeir, family member of slain teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir, in Shuafat, East Jerusalem, October 21, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
“The Israeli government needs to ask itself why a child of 13 would throw stones or try to hurt others. The answer is that these kids see what is happening in Duma to the Dawabsha family, and what was done to Muhammed Abu Khdeir,” he tells a group of Arab journalists, according to Ynet.
“They are sick of it.”
Abu Khdeir was kidnapped from an East Jerusalem street and burned alive by Jewish extremists in July 2014. Earlier this month, two of his killers were sentenced to life and 21 years in prison respectively. A third convicted murderer has yet to be sentenced.
Family photos lie in the remains of the Dawabsha home in the West Bank village of Duma, after it was firebombed by suspected Jewish extremists on July 31, 2015. (YouTube screen capture)
Three members of the Dawabsha family in the West Bank town of Duma died when their house was firebombed by suspected Jewish terrorists. The Shin Bet has arrested several suspects and two people have been indicted in the case.
Over 25 Israelis as well as an American, an Eritrean and a Palestinian have been killed in anti-Israel violence since mid-September.
Some 160 Palestinians have also been killed, over 100 of them in the course of near-daily attacks, according to Israeli officials.
Officials in Jerusalem have blamed the violence on Palestinian incitement, including from the PA.
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