Police denied this week that a new Jewish terrorist underground has emerged, two years after one in the West Bank was exposed and its leaders jailed.
Rafi Peled, Deputy Chief of Police Intelligence, told the Knesset Interior Committee Wednesday that the recent wave of attacks by Jews on Arabs and Arab property was the work of unconnected individuals. He said neither the police nor any other intelligence organization had evidence of a new terrorist network. The recent incidents were “individual and separate acts,” Peled said.
Mapam MK Muhammed Wattan has complained to the police that the authorities were not doing enough to end Jewish attacks on Arabs. He warned that if “Jewish provocation against Arabs” continued, he would support demands to dispatch an international force to Jerusalem to defend its Arab citizens.
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