UN envoy calls on Israel to ‘swiftly’ catch Dawabsha killers

[azurnoir]

The UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process called Wednesday on Israel’s law enforcement agencies to increase efforts to conclude an investigation into the firebombing of a Palestinian home in the West Bank that killed three members of the same family.

Suspected Jewish extremists torched the Dawabsha home in the village of Duma on July 31 while the family slept inside. Ali Dawabsha, the family’s 18-month old son, died in the attack; his parents, Saad and Riham, succumbed to their injuries in Israeli hospitals in the aftermath of the attack.


The family’s sole remaining member, 4-year-old Ahmed, is still being treated at Tel Hashomer hospital for extensive burns to most of his body.

“Four months have passed since the arson attack against the Dawabsha family in the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank,” said the statement from the office of Nickolay Mladenov.

Mladenov said he was “concerned” by the “slow progress” of the investigation, and called on Israeli authorities “to move swiftly in bringing the perpetrators of this terrible crime to justice.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-envoy-calls-on-israel-to-swiftly-catch-dawabsha-killers/

[Jefferson23]

1. Good luck. n/t

[azurnoir]

2. Really it seems a retired teacher being rude to an Israeli child is way more important than

a Palestinian baby being burned to death by an Israeli

[Jefferson23]

3. I hope they get somewhere with this case, but I have my doubts....it was gruesome. n/t

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. I am doubtful, but if this goes nowhere it only makes Israel look worse.

The Dawabsha family will still be either dead or severely injured.

Israel will do what is has done for a long time now: stall for as long as possible until the evidence, if any, is gone or just play out the clock until the next calamity.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. Hasbara 101 has to do something to distract from corrupted Israel zionism.

But ya know. That girl's feelings were hurt and all.

[oberliner]

6. That was pretty swift

Arrests made the following day. Perhaps the UN will respond with commendation for heeding their request so quickly.

[leftynyc]

7. They wont even acknowledge it

Neither will the usual suspects here. The UN is useless.

[azurnoir]

8. The arrests were made sometime ago and kept under gag order Google translate is your friend

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4733536,00.html

ETA add to that the only reason at least one of the suspects is actually in custody now is because he broke the conditions of his house arrest

[oberliner]

9. So what was the point of your OP?

Did the UN envoy not know how to use Google translate either?

[azurnoir]

10. One may ask what ToI's point was as it does not mention any of this

a pointed difference between English language and Hebrew press wouldn't you say?

[oberliner]

11. It seems to me that the UN envoy asked Israel to move swiftly on this

and then a day later Israel announced that arrests had been made, so it seems that the UN would be happy about that.

[King_David]

12. If you in this group and you don't speak any Hebrew or Arabic,then you're just a tourist nt