Abu Khdeir: We felt our son was murdered all over again

A year on since his son was abducted and burned alive by Zionist terrorists in the occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem'), the father of Mohammed Abu Khdeir said the writing was on the wall for the killing of a Palestinian infant in a West Bank Molotov cocktail attack overnight Thursday-Friday.

“The Israeli government is too lenient and [in fact] strengthens these racist criminals,” said Hussein Abu Khdeir in reference to Jewish extremists who carry out so-called “price tag” attacks against mosques, homes and other Palestinian property mainly in the West Bank.

Abu Khdeir said he and his family have been fearing such deadly incidents since his son was killed last July in a reprisal attack for the abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank the previous month.

With this attack in the West Bank village of Duma, “we feel that our son was murdered all over again,” Abu Khdeir said in an interview with Ynet.

He said he would pay a visit on Saturday to the family of the Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha, 18 months old, who was buried on Friday.

The rest of the family — parents Saad and Riham, and 4-year-old brother Ahmad — were badly burned in the incident.

“I am going to visit them tomorrow, of course. They burned him like they burned Mohammed Abu Khdeir. We have to go to the hospital, to their parents, and to Duma, Nablus, to visit them and embrace them. We went through — and are still going through it. We are burned, they burned our son and they burned us, and until today we are in a difficult state,” said Abu Khdeir.

“The Israeli government doesn’t want peace. Half of the government are settlers, they don’t want peace, they don’t want to do anything. They want both land and peace, and that is impossible. It’s either land or peace. They have to get out of the [Palestinian] territories,” he added.