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Israelis hold girls for desperate attacks

TWO teenage Palestinian girls were detained by Israeli occupation forces yesterday for alleged knife attacks.

The arrests came hours after three Palestinian members of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, were suspended on the orders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In East Jerusalem’s old city, Israeli border police approached a 16-year-old girl at the Damascus Gate who was “moving in a suspicious way,” Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said.

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