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Prosecutors to charge teen who allegedly took part in huge West Bank settler attack
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Prosecutors plan to indict a teenager suspected of partaking in a large-scale settler attack on Palestinian factories and farmland in the West Bank, law enforcement announces.
It marks the first charges filed against one of the suspected assailants in the raid earlier this month, which saw dozens of Jewish extremists set fire to a factory and surrounding farmlands near the villages of Bayt Lid and Dayr Sharaf, in the northern West Bank.
The defendant, a minor who was nabbed at the scene by security forces, is one of four people who were arrested during the attack. A prosecutor’s statement has been filed against him today, police say, and he will be charged tomorrow by Central District prosecutors.
Four Palestinians were injured in the attack, and settlers later set their sights on the troops, attacking soldiers who were dispatched to the scene, the IDF said at the time.
According to the police’s statement, “more than 50 indictments have been filed against individuals involved in severe violent incidents in Judea and Samaria” since the start of the year.
However, enforcement against settler violence under National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has declined on the whole over the past three years, according to a recent Channel 12 report, with a 73% drop in the number of investigations into settler violence opened since 2023.
Police say that the suspect was arrested as part of security forces’ intensifying efforts to fight Jewish nationalist violence in the West Bank, as attacks against Palestinians have surged in recent months. The officers who detained the suspect were said to be operating within “the special investigative task force established to address recent extreme violent incidents.”
The task force is part of a larger plan, overseen jointly by the IDF, Shin Bet, and police, to probe severe cases of “Jewish terrorism.” It is expected to expand the deployment of military and police in Palestinian villages targeted frequently in settler attacks.
The Times of Israel Community.