On 31 July 2015 , two family homes in Duma , a Palestinian village in the West Bank , were firebombed by masked attackers . 18-month-old Ali Sa'ad Dawabsheh was burnt to death ; his parents and 4-year-old brother were critically injured and rushed to Israeli hospitals , where the father died of his burns several days later . Five weeks later , the mother , Reham Dawabsheh , died of her injuries . Israeli police initially suspected that the arson was a price tag attack by " extremist Israeli settlers " ; some speculated that it might have been undertaken in retaliation for the demolition by the IDF of Jewish settlement structures in Beit El , ' the flagship of the ideological settler movement , ' some time earlier . Palestinians responded to the arson with large protests that resulted in violent confrontation with the Israeli forces
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Duma arson attack
2015–2016 wave of violence in Israeli-Palestinian conflict