(Jerusalem) Israeli police and intelligence announced Thursday that they had arrested four people, including a minor, suspected of “involvement in terrorist acts against Palestinians” during a deadly raid on the village of Jit a week ago.
A police and intelligence statement described it as “a serious terrorist act involving the setting of fires to buildings and vehicles, as well as the throwing of stones and Molotov cocktails. In addition, one Palestinian was killed and another injured.”
The suspects are “in custody” and “the investigation is continuing,” the statement added.
An Israeli police spokesman told AFP that the four suspects were being questioned over “different acts”, all carried out in the Palestinian village of Jit, in the north of the occupied West Bank, “on the same day”.
On the evening of August 15, around 100 settlers armed with knives and firearms, according to witnesses, attacked the village, killing a 23-year-old Palestinian, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
This raid sparked a wave of condemnation internationally and also within the Israeli political class.
Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip on October 7, following the bloody attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement that day on Israeli soil, violence has flared up in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
At least 640 Palestinians have been killed there by the Israeli army or settlers, according to an AFP count based on official Palestinian data, and at least 19 Israelis, soldiers or civilians, in Palestinian attacks or during army operations in the Palestinian autonomous zone, according to official Israeli data.
From October 7 to August 12, the UN recorded 1,250 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, including 120 resulting in Palestinian casualties and 1,000 causing material damage.