Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon on Sunday ordered that the Jewish extremists believed to be responsible for the death on Friday of a Palestinian infant be placed in administrative detention.
Israel’s policy of administrative detention – usually applied to Palestinian prisoners – allows the authorities to hold suspects for renewable periods without trial.
Ali Saeed Dawabsheh, an 18-month-old Palestinian child, was burned to death early Friday when Jewish settlers torched his home in the village of Duma in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Dawabsheh’s parents and brother were seriously injured in the attack.
According to Palestinian officials, the attack was carried out by extremist Jewish settlers affiliated with the “Price Tag” movement.
“Price tag” refers to a strategy by which Jewish settlers attack Palestinians and their property in retaliation for perceived threats to Israeli settlement expansion.