Several others also were indicted in a February arson attack on the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem, the burning of a Palestinian taxi, as well as the slashing of tires of cars belonging to Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem.
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A minor, who can not be named because of his age, was charged as an accessory to murder, the police said in a statement. “Catch the rest of them”, said Hussein Dawabshe, the toddler’s grandfather. Shin Bet said recent crackdowns haven’t fully eradicated the group’s leadership.
Since November, almost two dozen members of The Revolt have been arrested by Shin Bet.
He was a cousin of two Palestinians who in November stormed a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighbourhood with meat cleavers and a pistol, killing five Jewish worshippers and a policeman before being shot dead.
The global community regards all Jewish settlements in the West Bank as illegal but Israel makes a distinction between those it has authorised and those it has not. That death toll does not include the two Israelis killed in a shooting last Friday in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, as the motive for that assault remains unclear.
The time it has taken Israel to crack down on the Jewish militants, compared to the speedy and sometimes lethal response by state security forces to similar actions by Arabs, has angered Palestinians, contributing to a wave of stabbing, car-rammings, and shooting attacks against Israelis since October 1.
Since the current round of Israeli-Palestinian violence erupted in mid-September, at least 131 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November vowed to expedite punitive house demolitions in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which he said were “one of the most efficient tools” in discouraging Palestinian attacks.
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In the early stages of the unrest, PA security forces allowed crowds to approach checkpoints, where they protested and clashed with Israeli security forces. Referred to in Israel as “price-tag attacks”, such offences have usually been carried out in what the attackers say are reprisals for Palestinian violence against Israelis or government curbs on unauthorised building in the West Bank. She was moderately wounded and troops were searching for the shooter. A few hours later, also in Hebron, the military said another soldier was shot and wounded.
