Police nab 3 Turks entering Israel through Jordan
IDF soldiers signal to border guards to pick up the infiltrators; 14 Palestinians arrested in West Bank
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Israeli forces arrested three Turkish nationals who had crossed into Israel from Jordan overnight Sunday, police announced Monday.
IDF soldiers first spotted the three men and signaled to Border Police officers to investigate, the police said in a statement.
Police fanned out on a stretch of Arava Valley road that runs parallel to the border to nab the three, an Israel Police spokesman said.
The men were found near the Grofit Kibbutz, just outside of Eilat, and taken to the southern city for questioning.
In the West Bank, Israeli security forces arrested 14 Palestinians overnight.
Of them, 12 were arrested for so-called “popular terrorism” — Molotov cocktail and rock throwing or participation in violent demonstrations. The other two were arrested for undisclosed reasons, the IDF said.
Five of the Palestinians who were arrested came from the Qalandiya refugee camp, where last week a violent clash broke out between IDF troops and local Palestinians when a pair of soldiers accidentally entered the camp.
The firefight that erupted in Qalandiya left one Palestinian dead, 10 Israeli soldiers injured and dozens of Palestinians wounded.
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