Settlers burnt 15 Palestinian homes in seven years

The burning of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers, as happened in Duma on Friday, “is not a rare incident”, Quds Press reported Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din saying yesterday.

The organisation said that it has documented 15 cases were Israeli settlers have burnt or attempted to burn Palestinian homes since 2008.

In a statement, Yesh Din said that the Palestinians submit complaints to the Israeli police stations however in 10 instances the files were closed without anyone being brought to justice. Two cases are still being investigated.

In the West Bank village of Burin alone three Palestinian homes were burnt by Israeli settlers, the statement said.

“If the Israeli occupation authorities dealt strictly with such cases,” Yesh Din said, “the burning of infant Ali Dawabsheh [from Duma, Nablus] would not have been happened.”