Initial investigation of the fatal Duma Molotov cocktail attack indicates that two assailants were involved.
The two masked men approached the Dawabsha family home in the village south of Nablus, and a second home at around 2 a.m.
They sprayed racist graffiti in Hebrew, smashed windows, threw in petrol bombs, and fled, according to Channel 2. A petrol bomb was thrown through a smashed window directly into baby Ali’s room, it said.
A Palestinian Red Crescent medic said that when he got there, 18-month-old Ali was burned to death. “I saw an 18-month old baby burned to ash,” he said.
A man shows a picture of 18-month-old Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha who died when his family house was set on fire by alleged Jewish extremists in the West Bank village of Duma on July 31, 2015. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)
The medic, Youssuf, told Channel 2 that the father Saad had managed to get his wife and 4-year-old son out of their burning home, but “had no time” to rescue Ali.
All three other family members are in the Sheba hospital, where doctors are fighting to save their lives.
A Star of David and the Hebrew word ‘Revenge’ are spray-painted on the walls of a Palestinian home which was burned down by arsonists on July 31, 2015 in the Palestinian village of Duma, near Nablus (Zacahria Sadeh/Rabbis for Human Rights)
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