Israel to detain Jewish terror suspects without trial

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Israel to detain Jewish terror suspects without trial

Mairav Zonszein in Tel Aviv
Sunday 2 August 2015 16.29 BST

Israel has announced it intends to detain Jewish terror suspects without trial as the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, came under pressure to respond to the deaths in separate attacks of a Palestinian toddler and Israeli teenager.

Thousands of Israeli people took to the streets over the weekend to warn against a radicalised and violent fringe growing within the country, following the arson attack on a Palestinian family home in the West Bank by extremists and the stabbing of six people at a Jerusalem Gay Pride march by a suspect identified as an ultra-Orthodox Jew.

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The Israeli defence minister, Moshe Ya’alon, said on Sunday he had instructed the Shin Bet security service, police and military to apply “administrative detention” on rightwing Jewish citizens suspected of involvement in terror attacks against Palestinians as a direct response to the firebombing in the West Bank village of Duma that left 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh dead and critically injured his brother and parents.

Israel currently applies administrative detention solely to Palestinians and its extension to Israelis reflects the government’s frustration at the failure to track down the assailants. No suspects have been arrested in connection with Friday’s arson attack and no group has claimed responsibility.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/israel-to-detain-west-bank-arson-attackers-without-trial

[Hydra]

1. What, he doesn't want to find out who really did it and how far up it all goes?

Quelle Surprise...

[Fred Sanders]

3. Does that mean there might be a crackdown on ALL the terrorist-supporting religious RW groups?

[6chars]

4. Yes

[Little Tich]

5. It seems as if apartheid is as strong as it ever was in the West Bank.

So far, there hasn't been a single arrest, and the IDF seems to ber very reluctant to even look for the murderers. Obviously the Palestinian treatment with mass arrests and nightly surprise visits from the IDF is still reserved only for Palestinians.

The current number of Palestinians held in administrative detention is 5,442, and the number of Jewish Israelis held in administrative detention is the same as always: 0.

There is no rule of law in the West Bank, only apartheid.

[oberliner]

6. You have no idea what you are talking about

There are less than 400 Palestinians currently held in administrative detention.

You might want to check out a website called B'tselem:

http://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention/statistics

[Little Tich]

7. I used the numbers provided by The Guardian and Reuters, sorry.

The OP says: "According to the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, 5,442 Palestinians were in detention without trial as of June.", and Reuters said the same thing, so I just assumed they had checked.

I still don't like it that the murder of that child is seen as a lesser crime by the Israeli justice system, just because the murder was committed by Israeli Jews. It really bothers me on an emotional level.