Dozens protest Duma terror suspects’ detention

Dozens of people protest at the Chords Bridge in Jerusalem, accusing the Shin Bet security agency of torturing the Jewish extremists being investigated for allegedly carrying out the deadly firebombing of the Dawabsha family home in late July.

The Shin Bet has denied all allegations that it tortured detainees in an ongoing investigation into the terror attack, calling the claims “deceitful” and “entirely disconnected from reality.”

The Shin Bet accused right-wing activists of attempting to divert the public’s attention away from the “heinous terrorist acts” that the extremist group in question has been accused of and make the conversation instead about the “legitimacy of the investigation which uncovered their actions.”

Since the attorneys of the suspects in the Dawabsha murders accused the Shin Bet of torture, right-wing activists across the country have several times taken to the streets in protest, blocking traffic at the entrance to Jerusalem and demonstrating in front of the home of Yoram Cohen, the head of the Shin Bet.