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AUTHORITIES were probing a suspected arson attack yesterday in the Palestinian village where three members of the same family were burnt to death by Israeli settler extremists last year.
The fire broke out at about 3am in an upstairs bedroom of Muhammad Fayiq Dawabsheh’s house in Duma, near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Ma’an news agency reported. No-one was injured.
The Palestinian Civil Defence Service said investigations confirmed that a “very highly flammable material” had started the fire, ruling out “all other possible causes.”
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