ISRAEL announced the arrest yesterday of several settler extremists linked to July’s murderous firebombing of a Palestinian family.
The Shin Bet internal security service said it had arrested a number of youths belonging to a Jewish terrorist organisation.
It said interrogators were following up “concrete suspicions” connected to the attack in the West Bank village of Duma, near Nablus.
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated


