A Palestinian man whose child was killed in an arson attack blamed on Jewish settlers has died of his injuries.
Saad Dawabsha, 32, died in an Israeli hospital where he was being treated for second-degree burns to most of his body.
His son Ali, 18 months, died in the attack in the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank on 31 July.
His mother and his four-year-old brother remain in critical condition.
Hundreds of people turned out as Saad Dawabsha was buried in Duma on Saturday.
'Price tag attack'
In
last week's attack the family's small home was firebombed in the night,
and daubed with slogans in Hebrew, including the word "revenge".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack an act of terrorism. Israel has vowed to catch the arsonists.
Ali was 18 months old
Palestinian officials said they held Israel "fully responsible".
The incident may have been a so-called "price tag" attack.
Such
attacks usually involve acts of vandalism or arson by Jewish extremists
as retribution for actions taken by the Israeli government against
Jewish settlements or unauthorised outposts in the West Bank, or for
violence by Palestinians.
Palestinians
regard settlements as a major obstacle to building a sought-after state
in contiguous territory in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
About
500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's
1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are
considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes
this.
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