An Anti-violence rally was held Saturday night in Tel Aviv as Israelis gathered to protest in response the death earlier in the day of 32-year-old Sa’ad Dawabsheh of Duma and other recent terror attacks on Jews as well.
Dawabsheh had succumbed to the grievous injuries suffered when his home in the Palestinian Authority Arab village near Shechem was firebombed by unknown terrorists ten days ago. His 18-month-old son Ali died immediately in the conflagration. Dawabsheh’s wife Riham and his four-year-old son Ahmed are in grave condition at Tel Hashomer Medical Center in Tel Aviv.
Israelis protested the violence that led to the deaths, waving signs that said “Shalom” in Arabic and Hebrew. The working assumption by most protesters at this point is that the terrorists were Jewish because graffiti on the wall of the home was written in Hebrew.
However, due to the content and calligraphic elements of the writing, the ethnicity and identity of the terrorists is not quite that clear and a gag order has been slapped on the investigation. Nevertheless, Israeli security forces have been scouring Jewish communities throughout Judea and Samaria, with arrests of extremist elements taking place nearly every night since the attack.
In addition, the protesters demonstrated against the dozens of terrorist attacks that have been carried out by Palestinian Authority terrorists in the past ten days as well. IDF soldiers, Israeli police officers and Israeli civilians have been attacked while standing at intersections, patrolling or driving on the roads of Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria. Numerous civilians, soldiers and police officers have been wounded, including more than a few who were seriously injured, as a result.
On Saturday, Gaza’s ruling Hamas terrorist organization used the recent attack on the Dawabsheh home as an excuse to call on the Palestinian Authority population to launch a third intifada, exhorting PA citizens to rise up and attack Jews throughout Judea and Samaria in response to the firebombing in Duma.