The police arrested 23 Israeli Arabs from one village this week, on suspicion of perpetrating acts of terror that include arson.
The suspects, all residents of the village of Dabburiya, in Galilee, are accused of organizing a terrorist cell active against Jews and Arabs suspected of collaboration.
Dabburiya village, in the foothills of Mount Tabor, is in the heart of Israel, and neighbors several Jewish settlements. The arrests have shaken the delicate relations between Israeli Jews and their Arab fellow citizens.
Police Minister Haim Bar-Lev said only this week that while most Israeli Arabs probably sympathize with the uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the vast majority of them are law-abiding.
But according to police, the suspects in custody organized the “Saika Dabburiya,” named after a Syrian-backed Palestinian terrorist organization known as “A-Saika.”
A police official, Danny Tabib, said the detainees are suspected of stoning Jewish vehicles and throwing a gasoline bomb at a school bus.
They are also suspected of setting forest fires, raising Palestinian flags and inciting the Arab population against Israel.
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