Israeli police arrest five over settler rampage in West Bank
by Reuters from World news | The Guardian on (#69BMS)
Officers says they expect to make more arrests over violence described by Israeli general as pogrom'
Israeli police have arrested five suspects over a Jewish settler rampage in the occupied West Bank earlier this week that an Israeli general described as a pogrom" and which followed a deadly Palestinian gun attack.
Shops in the Palestinian village of Huwara remained closed on army orders on Wednesday amid a heavy Israeli military presence, residents said. A Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli brothers there on Sunday, prompting assaults by settlers on houses and cars during which one Palestinian was killed.
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