Police investigating fuel source in suspected settler arson

Law enforcement is probing whether the gasoline used by settler extremists in a suspected arson attack against Palestinians earlier this week was the same fuel that the army supplied them to run a generator at their quarantine outpost, a police official tells The Times of Israel, confirming a Kan public broadcaster report.

On Tuesday, a group of far-right youths from the quarantine facility near Metzoke Dragot north of the Dead Sea allegedly attacked a group of three Palestinians nearby, throwing rocks at them and spraying them with tear gas, before firebombing their cars.

Police have put a gag order on details of the investigation into the attack.

Jacob Magid

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