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Douma arson suspects indicted

November 24, 2016 23:17
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ByAnshel Pfeffer, Anshel Pfeffer

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This week, five months after three members of the Dawabsheh family were murdered in an arson attack in the Palestinian West Bank village of Douma, indictments were served on two suspected perpetrators.

Twenty-year-old Amiram Ben Uliel was accused on Sunday of having thrown a Molotov cocktail into the Dawabsheh home on July 31. A minor, whose name is subject to a gag-order, has been accused of assisting him - but not of joining in with the attack.

The two were among a group of young settler suspects who have been under arrest for six weeks.

Shin Bet investigators were allowed to use "special" types of physical coercion on the suspects which, according to their lawyers and Israeli human-rights groups, amounted to torture.