Five West Bank settlers are in Israeli custody on suspicion of plotting to attack police. The five Yitzhar residents were arrested recently on a tip that they planned to torch a car belonging to a senior Israeli policeman in the northern West Bank, security sources said Monday after a gag order on the case was lifted.
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