Police arrest man who called for hunting settlers ‘like pigs,’ find ammo in his home

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of incitement to terror after he called on social media to hunt down Israeli West Bank settlers “like pigs.”

The 39-year-old man, from the northern town of Maghar, made a post that read, “We have to hunt them down like pigs, God will curse you all so that not a single settler pig is left,” according to police.

The post was made in reference to Friday’s gunfight that killed two Israelis and four Palestinians in the northern West Bank, police say, which broke out after settlers illegally entered the Palestinian village of Tell.

Officers who raided the man’s home to arrest him discovered two M16 assault rifle magazines full of ammunition and confiscated them, police add.

He was brought to court this morning for a remand hearing, where a judge decided to extend his detention until Tuesday.

Maghar has a mixed Druze, Christian, and Muslim population; the police did not indicate what the background of the perpetrator was.