Israeli police announced new arrests in the 2003 killing of a soldier after three Israeli Arabs held for the crime were released. Police said Monday that an Israeli Arab shot dead by one of its patrols in the Galilee last month was behind the July 2003 killing of Cpl. Oleg Sheichat.
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