Judges release Duma suspect to house arrest

Judges at the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court release to a 10-day house arrest a detainee suspected of taking part in the murder of three members of the Palestinian Dawabsha family in the firebombing of their home in the West Bank village of Duma.

Earlier this week, a teen released after being detained for a month as a suspect in the fatal Duma terror attack claimed in a Channel 2 interview that Shin Bet interrogators tortured him while he was in custody.

The minor, identified only by the Hebrew initial “Ayin,” reiterated charges made by the lawyers of the suspects in the July 31 murders that the internal security agency used severe interrogation techniques against the detainees. State prosecutors on Monday submitted a statement of intent to indict Ayin for an attack on an Arab youth two years ago, but not in the Duma case.