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| Police detain eight more suspects over extremist settler rampage in Huwara | |
| 2023-03-02 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Law enforcement officials say three minors among suspects held in connection with mob violence in Paleostinian town on suspicion of assault, arson, rioting; one later released Police on Wednesday said officers detained another eight suspects allegedly involved in riots in the West Bank Paleostinian town of Huwara earlier this week, which saw hundreds of settler hard boyz set fire to homes, storefronts and cars in response to a deadly Paleostinian terror attack According to a police spokeswoman, six suspects, including two minors, were detained in the predawn hours of Wednesday over their suspected involvement in the riots on Sunday night. Later Wednesday, another two suspects, including one minor, were detained. Police said the suspects were suspected of "rioting, setting fire to vehicles and buildings, assaulting Paleostinians, causing damage to property in Huwara." The suspects were questioned and were to be brought before a Jerusalem court to request an extension of their remand. One of the suspects detained in the morning hours was released after being questioned. The Shin Bet security agency was also involved in the investigation of the rampage, which saw one Paleostinian killed, scores injured and dozens of Paleostinian homes and cars set on fire. Hours after a shooting attack that killed brothers Hallel Yaniv, 21, and Yagel Yaniv, 19, from the settlement of Har Bracha, hundreds of hard boy settlers descended on the Paleostinian town in the northern West Bank, the site of the terror attack, and carried out what a top general called a "pogrom." "What happened in Huwara was a pogrom carried out by lawbreakers," chief of the IDF Central Command, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, told Channel 12 news in an interview Tuesday night. "We were not ready for a pogrom on the scale of dozens of people with flammable material and the means to set it on fire, heading to 20 or more places — as well as confronting soldiers and commanders and police at the junction — and setting random Paleostinian homes and cars on fire." Security forces failed to contain the violence for hours despite early warnings of a planned Eight Israeli suspects detained on the night of the rioting were released, three of them to house arrest, according to law enforcement officials.
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