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Israeli prosecutors filed murder charges on Jan. 3 against a man and a minor for an arson attack in the occupied West Bank that killed three members of a Palestinian family and helped fuel the fiercest eruption of street violence in years. 

The attack on July 31 killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents Saad and Riham. 

Wedding guests in Jerusalem celebrate the wedding by dancing with guns and knives. One guests dances with a knife pierced through a picture of Ali Dawabsheh, an 18-month-old who died with his parents when their home in the village of Duma in the occupied Westbank was torched in July.

Israeli officials describe the attack as Jewish terrorism.

Video footage of Jewish zealots mocking the death by arson of a Palestinian baby has sparked outrage in Israel, even as some on the far right saw in the leak a possible bid to justify tough interrogation of suspects in the killing. 

Burgas-based Praimedia EOOD on Tuesday announced it was pulling out of a deal it signed this spring to buy TV7, Super7 and News7 TV stations.

The company cites, in a statement quoted by BGNES wire service, "refusal" by the state to register its new owners over alleged non-compliance with with the Commerce Act of the Republic of Bulgaria.

The way that Russia has hijacked Syrian policy, concomitant with its willingness to offer help to the Iraqis, has naturally made the Barack Obama administration uncomfortable. Schadenfreude-laced remarks from U.S. officials to ?let Russia fall into the Syrian quagmire?

The United States has asked Greece to ban Russian supply flights to Syria from its airspace, a Greek official said on Sept.7, amid growing US fears that Moscow is increasing its military backing for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The mother of Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha, who was killed when suspected Jewish extremists firebombed his house, succumbed to her injuries at night on Sept.6, said the Israeli hospital where she was cared for.

Israel arrested several suspects on August 9 in raids linked to the firebombing of a Palestinian home in the West Bank that killed an 18-month-old child and his father, police said.

The father of a Palestinian toddler killed in an arson attack on his home a week ago died on Aug. 8 of wounds sustained in the fire.
   

Israel's security cabinet approved on August 2 the detention of  citizens suspected of waging violence against Palestinians without trial in a crackdown aimed at capturing the perpetrators of a lethal West Bank arson attack blamed on Jewish militants.