Clashes in the West Bank after the death of three young Palestinians

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- By lefigaro.fr , AFP, AP, Reuters Agencies
- Update on 08/01/2015 at 22:13
- Published the 08/01/2015 at 22:00

Clashes have broken out in various areas, reacting to events on the eve of violence that also turned into a confrontation between youth and soldiers. Settlers and Palestinians in particular clashed in a village in the northern West Bank.

Tensions are running after three young Palestinians were killed, including a baby of 18 months, burned alive by a Molotov cocktail thrown by Israeli settlers.

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The death of a baby of 18 months, burned by Jewish extremists shook with anger the West Bank. Two other young Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during protests Friday. The funeral of one of them Laith Khaldi, 16, fatally shot by a bullet escalated in the afternoon. Dozens of young people from Jalazoun refugee camp, on the edge of Ramallah, threw stones at soldiers who retorted with tear gas and rubber bullets.

Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, clashes broke out in different areas, in reaction to the events of the day before violence that also turned into a confrontation between youth and soldiers. Settlers and Palestinians in particular clashed in a village in the northern West Bank.

A Palestinian boy with a slingshot during clashes with Israeli security forces today, near the camp of refugees Jalazon, north of Ramallah.

This new round of violence in Palestine began Friday at dawn, when masked men threw Molotov cocktails through the window of a house in a Palestinian village in the north of the occupied West Bank.

Dawabcheh Ali, 18 months, died burnt alive. Both parents, Saad and Riham, and his brother, Ahmed, four years are still between life and death.

Saad Dawabcheh, third degree burns on 90% of the body is in "critical condition", told AFP the Israeli hospital in Beer-Sheva. His wife and son are "in a very serious condition and their lives are in danger," according to the Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv.

"Terrorist act in every sense"

Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the crime of "terrorist act in every sense of the term," a word usually reserved in his mouth to Palestinian terrorists. Earlier he had called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas , with whom he usually maintains no contact

Friday, traditional day of mobilization among Palestinians, demonstrations honored the baby became a symbol of settler violence, responsible for 11,000 attacks last 10 years by the Palestinian Authority. These parades then degenerated into clashes with Israeli forces.

The first victim was Laith Khaldi, the weeping mother accused the soldiers of killing his son, "still a child", "cold blood." Another teen was killed by the Israeli army, this time in Gaza, explaining that the army had come too close to the wall separating Israel from the Palestinian enclave.

Funeral Laith al-Khaldi, 16, have dégénré in clashes.

If the emotion was strong in Israel, it is also because this day of violence succeeds another bloody event: Thursday, wounded a Jewish Orthodox stabbing six people , including a teenager, when Gay Pride in Jerusalem.

A "pogrom perpetrated by Jews"

The man had just served ten years in prison for a similar attack that left three injured at the same event in 2005.

Saturday night, about 2,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv to say "stop incitement to hatred." The leader of the opposition center-left, Isaac Herzog, denounced a "pogrom perpetrated by Jews" against Dawabcheh family for which he asked "forgiveness".

In the crowd, Amiram Goldblum, a university professor, denounced the settlers as "the plague of Israel." "We must not only end their violence but also to come out of the West Bank," said he told AFP. For its part, Yariv Oppenheimer, head of the NGO anticolonisation Peace Now, called "the government to take strong measures against settler violence."

Meanwhile, hundreds of Gazans were organizing a candlelight vigil and a symbolic funeral for Ali Dawabcheh.