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Tuesday, March 22, 2016
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Police arrest 1,200 Palestinians in Israel in crackdown
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIn the past two weeks, police officers have arrested approximately 1,200 Palestinians illegally residing in Israeli cities and another 150 Israelis who employed or housed them in cities around the country, police announce.
The crackdown began March 9, the day after a Palestinian man illegally residing in Jaffa carried out a terror attack that left one American man, a tourist, dead and almost a dozen people injured.
Following the vicious attack, the police made dozens or hundreds of arrests per day.
“The police will continue to operate to find [Palestinians illegally residing in Israel], for the safety of the public from both a criminal and security standpoint,” the police say in a statement.
— Judah Ari Gross
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