The Shin Bet security service announces that it has uncovered an “infrastructure” of Israeli citizens in Jerusalem’s Ras al-Amud neighborhood who were involved in “grassroots terrorism.”
In all, five have been arrested and linked to the group, which the Shin Bet alleges was involved in rock- and Molotov cocktail-throwing attacks at Israeli civilians and security forces.
Two of the arrestees are minors, the Shin Bet says in a statement.
In one case, on September 17, two minors from the group torched a bus in Ras al-Amud.
“The interrogations also revealed that during riots in the neighborhood, the activists would block the road with garbage cans and cut off the power, in order to draw in police forces and then attack them with Molotov cocktails,” the statement says.
The five have been indicted for a string of alleged offenses, the statement says, noting that further indictments are in the offing for additional alleged members of the group.
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