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Israel: Jewish extremists held for firebomb attack on family

ISRAEL announced the arrest yesterday of several settler extremists linked to July’s murderous firebombing of a Palestinian family.

The Shin Bet internal security service said it had arrested a number of youths belonging to a Jewish terrorist organisation.

It said interrogators were following up “concrete suspicions” connected to the attack in the West Bank village of Duma, near Nablus.

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