According to the official announcement, “the accused together with another soldier built an improvised explosive device which they threw into a house full of people, with the aim of taking revenge for the abduction of the body of a young Israeli.”
The Israeli military announced today that it has charged two soldiers who set off an improvised explosive device at a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank in retaliation for the kidnapping of the body of a Druze youth last month.
Palestinian gunmen had seized the body of the 17-year-old from a hospital in Jenin, where he had been taken after a car accident. The body was returned to the victim’s family about 30 hours later, following mediation by the Palestinian Authority.
The Druze are an Arab minority in Israel, members of which serve in the Israeli army.
“The defendants, together with another soldier, constructed an improvised explosive device which they threw into a house full of people,” says the relevant announcement, which emphasizes that the act was intended “to cause a fire in the house as a form of revenge for the abduction of the body of a of a young Israeli in Jenin”.
No one inside the home was injured, according to neighbors.
The accomplice of the two accused soldiers is also to be charged in the coming days, Israeli authorities announced.
Since March, the Israeli military has stepped up operations in the occupied West Bank in retaliation for attacks by Palestinian extremists.
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