A Palestinian minor suspected of stabbing and killing mother-of-six Dafna Meir at her home in the West Bank settlement of Otniel on Sunday evening was caught overnight Monday, security forces said.
With fugitive terrorist Nashat Milhem dead with a gunshot wound to the head in his home village of Arara on Friday, the time had come for police to breathe a sigh of relief. There would be no second attack by Milhem, no months-long search and no police or security officers injured taking him into custody.
Nashat Milhem, the Israeli Arab who went on a shooting spree on Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Street last week and subsequently managed to elude law enforcement since then, has reportedly been shot dead near a building in the Wadi Ara region.
The Israeli Security Agency (ISA), in cooperation with the IDF and Israel Police, arrested in December a Hamas terror cell composed of Arab residents of Hevron and Jerusalem.
Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shabak) sources admit that it is possible that Amiram Ben Uliel, who has been charged with burning down an Arab home last July, killing a baby and his parents, did not carry out the attack alone despite what the charges against him say.
To his family and the residents of his village, 31-yearold Nashat Milhem is a mentally troubled young man who never gave any indication he would carry out an atrocity on the streets of Tel Aviv and become the subject of a massive Shin Bet and Israel Police manhunt.
Tzfat (Safed) Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu spoke on Sunday about the video from a wedding three weeks ago, in which Jewish extremists appeared to celebrate the deadly Duma arson while waving weapons, in a clip leaked to the media last week that has raised an uproar.
Security has been boosted around Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) chief Yoram Cohen, Channel 10 reports Sunday, following concerns over potential threats from right-wing extremists over the Duma arson case.
Attorney Ilan Bombach called on the justice system to investigate the numerous claims against the Israeli Security Agency (ISA), accusing it of brutal torture against the Jewish suspects being held in the lethal Duma arson case.
Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is representing Jewish suspects arrested over the Duma arson attack in July, announced Tuesday morning that the main suspect provided evidence that the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) sexually harassed him during the course of their interrogations.