Seven of eight West Bank settlers arrested by security forces earlier this month were released to house arrest today by the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court, according to the right-wing legal aid group Honenu.
One of them remains in custody.
The eight were arrested in three separate incidents over the course of the past month, amid simmering tensions between extremist settlers and security forces in the West Bank.
The arrest of five of the eight was announced on Sunday by the police and Shin Bet, which said they were suspected of engaging in “grave and violent activities against security forces.” They were detained as part of an ongoing investigation, whose details are under a gag order until September 3.
“The Shin Bet and Israel Police view these acts of terror as a grave threat to national security and will continue to work to thwart such activity and to prosecute perpetrators to the fullest extent of the law,” the agencies said at the time.
The night before the five were arrested, a group of 30-40 settlers set fire to an olive grove adjacent to a Shin Bet facility in central Israel, in an attempt to obstruct the probe currently underway, Channel 13 News reported.
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