Police have arrested eight individuals suspected of partaking in a settler rampage through a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank last night.
The suspects, whose ages range from 13 to 48, are accused of setting fire to Palestinian residents’ homes and two chicken coops in Qusra, as well as badly injuring a 32-year-old man employed in the village. He was left with a serious head injury and taken to the hospital for further treatment.
The suspects were arrested near the site of the attack last night, police say, as part of an ongoing investigation into the incident. Police seized an army-grade M16 assault rifle from one of the suspects.
Critics say police have largely turned a blind eye to increasingly brazen settler violence in the West Bank, and even when arrests are carried out, rarely result in indictments.
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