July 31, 2015: Laith Fadel al-Khalidi, 17, was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers near the Atara roadblock near Ramallah. He underwent two surgeries but succumed to his wounds. Laith was from al-Jalazoun refugee camp in Ramallah in the West Bank. Source: IMEMC
July 31, 2015: Ali Saad Dawabsha, 18 months old, was burned to death after right-wing Israelis firebombed his family’s home. His mother, father, and four-year-old brother, were severely burned, and both of his parents later died of their wounds.
The attack took place at about 2:30 in the morning, in the village of Douma, in the northern part of the West Bank near the city of Nablus.
The Israeli attackers arrived in the dead of night in the village, and began by spray-painting hate slogans against Palestinians on the Dawabsha family home. They then broke a window and threw a firebomb inside, setting off the fire that killed the baby.
The graffiti, written in Hebrew, included the phrase ‘price tag’, which is a slogan used by right-wing Israeli extremists against Palestinians – the reference being that continued Palestinian existence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank would exact a price from the Israeli colonizers.
Ali’s father Sa’ad Dawabsha, and his mother Reham, 37, were also burned to death. Ali’s older brother, Ahmad, four years of age, suffered third degree burns all over his body but survived the attack.
In May 2020, nearly five years after the attack, one of the Israeli attackers was convicted of murder. The other attackers were not convicted, and still walk free.
Israel’s Lod District Court convicted Israeli settler, Amiram Ben-Uliel for his involvement in the arson attack that resulted in the death of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha.
Ben-Uliel was involved in the 2015 attack that killed the infant and severely burned his older brother Ahmad and both his parents, Reham and Sa’ad when the settler, with others, threw flaming Molotov cocktails into the family bedroom.
The Dawabsha family was from Douma village near Nablus. Source: IMEMC
July 27, 2015: Mohammad Ata Lafi Abu Latifa, 20, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during their early morning invasion of the Qalandia refugee camp. Mohammad was on the rooftop of his home when he was shot in his legs, and he was later killed after the soldiers arrested him according to eyewitnesses. Source: IMEMC
July 23, 2015: Falah Hamdi Abu Mariya, 53, was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers in his own home as he tried to help his sons who had just been shot and wounded by the invading soldiers. Falah was from Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the southern West Bank. Source: IMEMC
July 3, 2015: Mohammad Hani al-Kasba, 17, was shot while climbing the Annexation Wall, along with dozens of residents, in an attempt to reach the Al-Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayers. After being shot, he fell from a high altitude and slammed into the ground. Mohammad was from Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC