A 35-year-old resident of the West Bank settlement of Beit El has been detained by the Shin Bet on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a Palestinian man killed last month during reprisal attacks by Jewish extremists following the recent slaying of an Israeli teenager.
The arrest is announced in a statement from Honenu, a far-right group providing legal representation to the suspect, which says that the Israeli man was arrested last night after he “refused to cooperate” with the Shin Bet during an interrogation that took place yesterday.
The statement adds that the suspect will appear in the Jerusalem District Court this morning for a remand hearing.
“This is a wrongful arrest of an innocent person,” the lawyers say, while vowing, “We will do everything in our power so that he is home for Shabbat.”
The arrest follows the announcement earlier this week of administrative detention warrants for five settlers suspected of taking part in the violence against Palestinians that erupted after the body of 14-year-old Benjamin Achimeir was discovered on April 13, with security forces saying he was killed in a terror attack.
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