Israel arrests 6 Jewish over dead Palestinian teen
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ISRAEL has arrested six Jewish suspects in the abduction and killing of a Palestinian teenager whose death sparked violent protests in Jerusalem and Israeli Arab towns, a security source said yesterday.
With tensions high along the Gaza border, Israel said its aircraft attacked 10 sites in the Palestinian enclave in response to persistent rocket strikes on southern Israeli towns.
But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signalled that broader Israeli action was not imminent.
The burning alive of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, and the earlier murders of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers, have driven relations between Palestinians and Israelis to their lowest point since United States-backed peace talks broke down in April.
The security source gave no details about the suspects arrested in the investigation into the abduction and killing of Abu Khdeir, other than to say they were Jewish and that police saw “nationalist motives” in the case.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a gag order had been imposed on most details of the case, commenting only that police had “arrested a number of Jewish suspects who carried out the killing.”
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said the suspects were being questioned at one of its installations.
Abu Khdeir’s burnt body was discovered in a Jerusalem forest on Wednesday. Palestinians believe he was the victim of far-right Jews avenging the kidnap-killing of the three Israeli teenagers who disappeared while hitchhiking in the occupied West Bank on June 12, and whose bodies were found last Monday.
Israel blames the deaths of Naftali Fraenkel and Gil-Ad Shaer, both 16, and 19-year-old Eyal Yifrah, on Hamas. The Gaza flare-up began in mid-June during Israel’s search for the teens in the West Bank and its arrests of Hamas members.
Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the killings.
In remarks to his cabinet yesterday, Netanyahu pledged “to do whatever is necessary” to restore quiet to southern Israeli communities that have come under rocket attack from the Gaza Strip, where Hamas is the dominant force.
But he also cautioned against any rush toward wider confrontation with the group, whose arsenal includes long-range rockets that can reach Israel’s heartland and its business capital, Tel Aviv.
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