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Israeli army detains 10 Palestinians after rock attack
Published Friday 15/03/2013 (updated) 17/03/2013 21:55
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Israeli army said Friday that it had arrested 10 Palestinians suspected of connections to a rock attack that injured several Israelis near a West Bank settlement.

Eight Palestinians were arrested in Haris and two were arrested in Kifl Haris. Both Palestinian villages are in the West Bank district of Salfit.

"Last night's rock hurling caused a car accident in which an Israeli infant was severely injured, 3 other civilians were moderately injured and one civilian was lightly injured," the army said in a statement.

"Rocks were also hurled at an Israeli bus, injuring 3 Israeli civilians, who were also taken to a hospital."

The statement added: "The IDF views terror activities, including rock hurling, with great severity and will continue to act with strength and determination to protect the residents of the State of Israel and maintain security in the area."

The Hebrew-language daily Maariv reported that Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered the Israeli army to treat the Palestinians strictly.

Netanyahu phoned the chairman of the regional council of northwest settlements to check on the injured settler and three children who were injured in the rock attack, it said.

One child was critically injured, Israeli officials said.

Meanwhile Israeli parliament member Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said the situation was deteriorating and could lead to a third intifada. President Mahmoud Abbas will not prevent it, he added.

Separately, Maariv said Israeli police in cooperation with the Shin Bit detained a "terrorist" in central of Tel Aviv after they raided his apartment on Thursday.

A police spokesman declined to comment but a source confirmed the arrest, according to Maariv.
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1 ) Colin Wright / USA
15/03/2013 21:18
'...Maariv said Israeli police in cooperation with the Shin Bit detained a "terrorist" in central of Tel Aviv...' Pretty comic. The word 'terrorist' has been so abused that the police might as well have said they arrested 'somebody.' We'd have exactly the same amount of information.
2 ) Paul / Africa
15/03/2013 23:38
Gee Colin, you such an authority on everything. Wow & there I thought Americans only know America, the land of the Red Indians. Take it from me as a Black African, your morality & hypocricy stinks.
3 ) johnny benson / usa
16/03/2013 00:10
....meanwhile a two year old was criticly injured by a rock....everybody suffers...the kids are arrested and likely abused....hate grows...everybody lose
4 ) JoeUSA / USA
16/03/2013 03:21
to Colin Wright , On a local religious TV station , ( WHME) , they show IBA news from Israel daily for 30 minutes. I watch it . It is amazing when the Israelis are talking about the Palestinians , every third word is " Terrorist , terror , terrorizing etc...". I can relate to what you are saying.
5 ) Lilith / The World
16/03/2013 11:58
No they are terrorists. Not all terrorists come in the guise of gun toting individuals. A terrorist is a person who terrorises. Comprende?
6 ) JoeUSA / USA
16/03/2013 20:15
Lilith , you do not know what you are talking about....You are not from the world. you are from the close minded little world of Brooklyn (most likely Flatbush) or Skokie Illinois. , or the bigger world of Miami...
7 ) lochem51 / usa
17/03/2013 00:15
whats it called when someone aims a rock at a car with the intent to kill ends up critically injuring a toddler? Stop with the BS, rocks kill and if you hurled a rock at a car in the US or most civilized countried you would be arrested too
8 ) gabi / australia
17/03/2013 02:22
Lilith you are right- "Not all terrorists come in the guise of gun toting individuals. A terrorist is a person who terrorises." That describes the Irgun, Haganah, Stern Gang et al, who terrorised the locals while they were setting about stealong the land to make their state, and extending it. It also describes the IDF and most settlers. Comprende?
9 ) ian / australia
17/03/2013 13:55
#5 "A terrorist is a person who terrorises." That's true Lilith and the victims of terrorism are people who are terrorised. So, who are the most terrorised people in the region? Israeli motorists or West Bank shepherds and farmers? Jews in settlements or Palestinians in Gaza who lived through Cast Lead and Pillar of Cloud? People safe and sound in WEST Jerusalem or facing eviction/demolition in EAST Jerusalem? And who is the bigger terrorist? Teens with rocks, for all their lethal intent,
10 ) ian / australia
17/03/2013 13:57
(contd.) or soldiers with flechettes, expanding "dum dum" bullets and that nightmarish sewage spraying machine?
11 ) bman / Canada
17/03/2013 16:21
Maybe you guys shouldnt be arguing about who is the "bigger" terrorists rather than agree that both sides are at fault for inciting violence against each other, and agree that its in both of their best interest to advance a peaceful solution.
12 ) for bman / USA
17/03/2013 18:43
the squats and squatters are illegal and an act of war...both sides are not equal...the land is stolen by and for zio jews...and bring their children into the war zone as shields just for this kind of thing...if they had not been in the west bank stealing land this would not have happened...if they hadn't brought children w/them while engaged in felony theift it would not have happened...peaceful solution w/criminals....tell that to your sister when she is raped idiot
13 ) ian / australia
17/03/2013 21:58
#6 "You are not from the world. you are from the close minded little world of Brooklyn (most likely Flatbush) or Skokie Illinois. , or the bigger world of Miami..." I think "Lilith" is from Australia JoeUSA, and if s/he isn't, s/he sure seems to know a lot of pretty obscure Australian stuff.
14 ) Israeli1 / Israel
18/03/2013 03:39
A little girl may die, we have caught the rock thrower, he will be put on trial for attempted murder and maybe murder. That is all. None of anyone else's business.
15 ) For #12 / Canada
18/03/2013 14:18
That's a new one, now children are free targets in the West Bank because Israelis have moved in there. I love your logic, when Palestinian children die as a result of Hamas loading elementary schools with munitions or fire rockets from densely civilian area, it's israel that is at fault but if a Palestinian throws a rock at an Israeli child and kills him/her it's also Israel's fault because they shouldn't be there. You make me laugh while at the same time make me sick.
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