A right-wing extremist Israeli organization filed a suit before the International Criminal Court (ICC), on behalf of a Jewish family, demanding that the Palestinian Authority (PA) be condemned for what it called “incitement against Jews”.
The lawsuit comes in response to the Authority's legal action before the ICC against Israel for war crimes against the Palestinians, claimed the organization Yesh Din.
The Jewish family lives in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, in Hebron south of the West Bank.
The lawsuit reads that the PA runs a “systematic policy of incitement against Israel and Jewish settlers”, and pays salaries to Palestinian detainees, or those who die during operations against soldiers or Jewish settlers.
It added that as a result of this policy, Palestinian Mohammed Traayra, 17, attacked a settler’s home in Kiryat Arba in 2016, and stabbed Hallel Ariel, 12, in her bed.
“If the PA is not held accountable for its approach, and does not stop paying salaries to prisoners and families of those killed, other Jewish children will be killed,” said Rena Ariel, Hallel’s mother.
Yesh Din organization said that Traayra was shot by the Israeli army, and the PA considered him a martyr and pays a monthly salary to his family.
This in itself is an act that encourages other Palestinians to carry out similar operations, warned the organization, adding that Israel is seeking to end such operations by demolishing the homes of the perpetrators, expelling them from their area, and arresting their relatives.
