18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha pictured with his father Saad and mother Riham

RAMALLAH —  The mother of an 18-month-old Palestinian baby burned to death in an arson attack in the occupied West Bank, has herself died from injuries sustained during the attack.

Reham Dawabsheh, 26, who died on Sunday night in an Israeli hospital, had suffered third-degree burns to at least 80 percent of her body in the July 31 firebombing.

Israeli settlers are accused of throwing flammable liquids and Molotov cocktails inside two homes in the village of Duma in that incident.

Saad, Dawabsheh’s husband, died from his injuries eight days after the attack while four-year-old Ali, another son of the couple, is still in hospital.

Her death has left her son Ahmad Dawabsha, 4, as the only remaining survivor of the attack on their home in the West Bank village of Duma. 

Nickolay Mladenov, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said he was “saddened” by Dawabsheh’s death.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and especially with little Ahmed, now orphaned due to this heinous act.

“I reiterate and strengthen my earlier call for justice… I am nevertheless concerned by the lack of progress in identifying and prosecuting the perpetrators of this outrage.

“The tragedy of the Dawabsheh family serves as a shocking example of the destructive nature of extremism,” Mladenov said.

Several suspects have been arrested after the Dawabsheh family’s home was targeted, killing Ali Dawabsheh, Reham’s toddler son, and prompting anger among the Palestinian community.