Israel hiding killers who burned Palestinian family alive, minister reveals

A few days ago, I tweeted: “Either Israel already knows who murdered the Dawabshas and is covering it up or it has made zero effort to find them. One or the other.”

That was the day after Riham Dawabsha died of injuries from the horrific firebombing of her family home that killed her son, 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha, in the occupied West Bank village of Duma.
The boy’s father, Saad, died of his injuries in August, leaving Ali’s badly burned 4-year-old brother Ahmed as the sole survivor.
Israel’s conduct turned out to be depressingly predictable.

Haaretz reported today that, according to Israel’s defense minister Moshe Yaalon, “Israel’s defense establishment knows who is responsible for the arson attack that killed three members of a Palestinian family two months ago, but has chosen to prevent legal recourse in order to protect the identity of their sources.”
Yaalon made the remarks in a closed meeting of activists of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party.

The minister later confirmed to Haaretz that the Israeli defense establishment “believes they know who carried out the terrorist attack, but there is difficulty in putting them on trial. I hope that we’ll find the evidence necessary in order to bring the perpetrator [sic] of this heinous attack to justice.”
According to Haaretz, Yaalon “also noted that the perpetrators belong to a group of Jewish extremists that intended to increase tension in the West Bank. Therefore, said Ya’alon, the decision was made to put Jewish suspects in administrative detention, in order to prevent future attacks.”

Witnesses had seen the attackers flee to the nearby Israeli settlement of Maaleh Efraim after the Dawabsha home was set on fire.
Three Jewish settlers, Meir Ettinger, Mordechai Meyer and Eviatar Slonim, have been held without charge since the attack for allegedly plotting and carrying out other violent attacks against Palestinians. But it is unknown if any of them are among the suspects referred to by Yaalon.
Following the attack on the Dawabsha family and intense international condemnation, Netanyahu vowed to find the killers.
But he did not order the army to go on the sort of destructive rampage meted out against Palestinians after the June 2014 abduction and killing of three Israeli youths in the occupied West Bank.
In that case, Israel carried out the extrajudicial murders of two Palestinians it claimed were behind the abductions and the collective punishment of their families by destroying their homes.

Who are they protecting?

Yaalon’s reported excuse, that Israeli authorities had not announced the arrest of the suspects in the Dawabsha murders to “protect the identity of their sources,” makes little sense.
Why would “sources” who had helped apprehend alleged murderers need protection, and from whom? And why couldn’t Israel with its mighty army and all-knowing “security” services provide it?
If the “sources” are from Shin Bet, Israel’s internal spy agency, why could they not testify anonymously as they have frequently done against Palestinians? And even if Israel is worried about their identities being exposed, why is that more important than the lives of Palestinians?

Yaalon’s revelation looks like yet another example of the systematic impunity Israeli soldiers and settlers are granted for attacks on Palestinians.
It would also not be the first time settlers have gotten away with burning Palestinians alive.
The settlers, just like the army, are an extension of the Israeli settler-colonial state that always protects its own and that glorifies the terrorists and ethnic cleansers who established it.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-hiding-killers-who-burned-palestinian-family-alive-minister-reveals

No justice for Palestinians in the West Bank.

That is not what I have read.
Talk about telling porkies.


The reason is given

Haaretz reported today that, according to Israel’s defense minister Moshe Yaalon, “Israel’s defense establishment knows who is responsible for the arson attack that killed three members of a Palestinian family two months ago, but has chosen to prevent legal recourse in order to protect the identity of their sources.”


So is not the safety of the witnesses of high importance or do you want them found dead and then there is no case to be made against the murderers?

Ya'alon was asked whether security forces had apprehended those responsible for the Jewish terrorist attack which killed three members of the Dawabsheh family, to which he answered, "We know who is responsible, but we will not expose those findings in order to protect our intelligence sources."


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4699818,00.html

Ya'alon was asked whether security forces had apprehended those responsible for the Jewish terrorist attack which killed three members of the Dawabsheh family, to which he answered, "We know who is responsible, - BUT THEY HAVEN'T ARRESTED THEM, neither have they done what they do to Palestinians and destroyed their homes.

Yes to protect the intelligence sources.

Seriously how thick are you?

Do you wish the case to be blown?

take your time

Seriously, not half as thick as you for believing it and thinking they should not arrest in case they give away intelligence sources.  What's the point of intelligence sources if they don't arrest when they have the knowledge.

Hilarious babble again from the antisemtic idiot.
Do you understand anything about intelligence sources and protecting their identity?
I can give you a lecture on this with the conflict in Northern ireland you thick ignorameous?

I saw you were on video yesterday calling for a second holocaust of the Jews





And people claim they are not anti Jewish those of the BDS, as seen they are on a par woth the Nazis

Cuchulain wrote:Yes to protect the intelligence sources.

Seriously how thick are you?

Do you wish the case to be blown?

take your time

WOW, new way of prosecuting crime.  Use your intelligence sources to find out who committed the crime and then forget about it in case someone finds out who your intelligence sources are.  Makes perfect sense.

New way?

Doh

Which shows you have no comprehension of intelligence services.

Did it really happen

So many fake stories trying to vilify Israel out there

More than likely it was an IED gone wrong

smelly-bandit wrote:Did it really happen

So many fake stories trying to vilify Israel out there

More than likely it was an IED gone wrong

That's true .

If the Iraeli government knows who these people are they should be charged and put on trial.

There is already adequate provision within the Iraeli judicial system for secret evidence to be presented behind a cloak of anonmity so it's bullshit to suggest that this cannot happen.

It's already happened in the case of Palestinian's who are locked up as a result of secret evidence being presented without revealing anything about the Israeli intelligence agency - Shin Bet.

Irn Bru wrote:If the Iraeli government knows who these people are they should be charged and put on trial.

There is already adequate provision within the Iraeli judicial system for secret evidence to be presented behind a cloak of anonmity so it's bullshit to suggest that this cannot happen.

It's already happened in the case of Palestinian's who are locked up as a result of secret evidence being presented without revealing anything about the Israeli intelligence agency - Shin Bet.

perhaps like i said it wasnt the israelis fault

perhaps it was a false flag operation, afterall it wont be the first time the pals have murdered innocent people and dumped the corpses on israels door

With Sassy. The Israeli thugs have been taking advantage and pushing their weight around since landing in Palestine. Talk to some of the old that survived and served in the last WW or the good Jews that do not want all this carnage... A lot of them are aware and many are sickened to the core on how the Palestinians have and still are being treated.

Since landing in Palestine???

You mean over 2000 years ago before the word Palestine was ever uttered

Never mind,everyone loves bit revisionist history