David Mowat – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Mowat on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information he has received from the Israeli authorities about progress in prosecuting the perpetrators of the arson attack in the Palestinian village of Duma in July 2015.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

We are aware of reports that Israel’s Defence Minister said Israel knows that the Duma terror attack was committed by extremist Jews, but that legal investigations are stuck because of insufficient admissible evidence. We have called on the Israeli authorities to ensure that those responsible for this crime are brought swiftly to justice. Officials at our Embassy in Tel Aviv are closely following Israel’s actions to introduce additional measures to combat settler violence.