West Bank arrest of four Palestinians suspected of attack near Homesh

Israeli security forces blocking access to a settlement in Homesh where an attack took place killing an Israeli on December 16, 2021. © JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP

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Four Palestinians were arrested in Silat al-Harithiya in the northern West Bank in a raid carried out jointly by the army and a special unit of the Israeli police.

The latter are suspected of being the perpetrators of the shooting on Thursday, December 16 towards Homesh.

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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett welcomes the arrest of the perpetrators of

on Thursday, December 16 near a settlement in the northern West Bank.

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”warned the Prime Minister. 

Two of them are suspected of having directly carried out the attack last Thursday in which Yehuda Dimentaman, 25, was killed and two of his comrades were injured.

The weapons that were used in the shooting have been found.

An attack by Islamic Jihad

According to the Shin Bet, the internal security service, the four men would have operated on behalf of Islamic Jihad.

This Palestinian group has its headquarters in Gaza.

The attack took place near the Homesh settlement which was evacuated in 2006 as part of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza and several outposts in the West Bank.

But in fact, it continued to be inhabited.

This morning, soldiers came to dismantle new facilities put in place since the attack on Thursday.

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