Minister urges swift action against rampaging settlers, says actions contradict Jewish values

Interior Minister Moshe Arbel urges the Shin Bet and other law enforcement bodies to “act immediately to eradicate the phenomenon of grave nationalistic crime that took place this evening against innocents in the village of Jit,” after masked settlers torched homes and cars.

One Palestinian was shot dead and another was seriously injured, according to the Palestinian Authority. It is unclear by whom they were shot.

Arbel, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, says the action “go against the values of Judaism, are a moral and human low point, and harm the State of Israel and the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria.”