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Firefighters work at a Palestinian house that Palestinians say was attacked by Israeli settlers near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, March 26, 2023 (Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Torokman) Published by YNET News

An Israeli policeman checks the damage in a Palestinian house which Palestinians say was attacked by Israeli settlers near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, March 26, 2023 (REUTERS/Mohammed Torokman) Published by YNET News

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Israeli Colonizers Burn Huwwara Home; Family Narrowly Escapes Death

by IMEMC News
March 26, 2023

On Sunday dawn, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers infiltrated Sinjil town, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and burnt a home as the family slept before the father rushed his four children and his wife out to safety.

Media sources said the home is on the outskirts of Huwwara, an issue that made it easily accessible to the colonizers who firebombed the home as the family slept.

Ahmad Maher Awashra said he woke up to crackling in the kitchen, immediately took his children out of their beds, and rushed out of the property with his wife before the fire spread.

While the family was not physically hurt, the children suffered severe anxiety attacks after seeing the fire and being rushed out of their home.

He added that several young men heard and saw the colonizers running away after setting the house ablaze.

Over the past several years, the colonizers have burnt and tried to burn many homes, mosques, and churches in several parts of occupied Palestine, in addition to desecrating and destroying graves.

On July 31, 2015, paramilitary Israeli colonizers firebombed a Palestinian home in Douma village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, killing Ali Saad Dawabsha, 18 months. His mother, Reham, father, Saad, and brother, Ahmad, were severely burned; his parents later died of their wounds.
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Palestinians accuse settlers of arson, Israel says electrical fire

No one hurt in predawn fire, which Palestinian FM blames on 'Jewish terrorist elements'; homeowner says woken by sound of window smashing and managed to get his four children and wife out before flames spread

by YNET News
March 26, 2023

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry accused "Jewish terrorist elements" of an arson attack against a family home in the West Bank on Sunday, but Israeli police said the fire appeared to have been an accident.

West Bank tensions have been running high as Palestinians mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid a surge of violence, including a gun attack on Saturday in which two Israeli soldiers were wounded and almost nightly arrest raids by the Israeli army.

No one was hurt in the predawn fire in Sinjel. Ahmed Awashreh, the owner of the home that was badly damaged, said he was woken by the sound of a window smashing and managed to get his four children and wife out before the flames spread.

"It was so close. I'm happy I saved my family," he said.

A Sinjel resident who requested anonymity said he saw cars whose occupants he recognized as Jewish settlers nearby minutes before the incident.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry blamed the incident on "Jewish terrorist elements" but Israeli police, who sent investigators to the scene, said in a statement that the fire "was most likely caused due to a short circuit and not a deliberate ignition".

This took place only one day after the Liberation of Palestine militant group claimed Saturday night's drive-by shooting in Huwara, 13 km (8 miles) from Sinjel, that wounded two soldiers. It was the third time in a month that Israelis had been fired upon there.
In a Feb. 26 attack, a gunman from the Hamas militant group killed two brothers from a nearby Jewish settlement as they sat in a car. That sparked a revenge rampage by settlers in which a Palestinian was killed and properties torched.