Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's religions and Diaspora affairs correspondent.
Illustrative. Soldiers load a Palestinian into the back of a military vehicle in Qalqilya on January 14, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
The Shin Bet security service arrested the brother of firebombing victim Riham Dawabsha in the West Bank village of Duma on Sunday night, the agency said.
Wissam Dawabsha was picked up and brought in for questioning for allegedly belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization, according to the army. (While the Israel Defense Forces did not name Dawabsha directly, it said that the one person arrested in Duma overnight was suspected of Hamas affiliation.)
Riham Dawabsha, along with her husband, Saad, and their 18-month-old toddler, Ali, were killed last summer when firebombs were thrown into their home, allegedly by Jewish extremist Amiram Ben-Uliel.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, the IDF arrested four other suspected members of Hamas, the army said. One of them was a university lecturer in Nablus, Palestinian sources said.
Weapons seized by security forces in the West Bank on April 4, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit)
Overnight, Givati Brigade soldiers uncovered two homemade Carl Gustav-style submachine guns, along with ammunition and magazines, in the Judea region of the West Bank, the army said.
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Eight other Palestinians were arrested for rock throwing and taking part in violent demonstrations, the IDF said in a statement.
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