Shin Bet arrests three in West Bank in Jewish terror case
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An alleged Jewish terror cell was arrested by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and police in the West Bank Sunday.
Further details of the allegations are under gag order pending developments in the ongoing questioning of the suspects, but there were disparate reports about whether two or three suspects had been apprehended and what exactly the allegations were.
The Shin Bet itself had no comment on the case, but according to Honenu lawyer, Itamar Ben Gvir, security forces raided a yeshiva in the northern West bank and one of the arrested suspects was a minor.
Ben Gvir protested that the minor was not being allowed to consult with a lawyer.
Though generally suspects have the right to consult a lawyer, especially minors, in security cases the courts permit the Shin Bet a longer period of time to question suspects without such access.
There were no allegations yet of the Shin Bet using enhanced interrogation on the suspects, but it did use those methods in 2015 on the alleged Duma Jewish terror conspirators.
The Shin Bet’s use of enhanced interrogation in the Duma case led to some confessions being disqualified by the trial court, though others were accepted by the court and the prosecution says it still expects to convict the defendants.
In recent weeks there have been a number of price tag vandalism incidents in Judea and Samaria which are unsolved to date.
Moreover, on October 13, Palestinian woman named Aysha Ravi was hit by rocks while driving her car near the Tapuah Barrier in the West Bank and was killed.
Ravi was driving her car with her husband beside her and was injured when the stones struck her head.
She was taken to the hospital where she later died.
There was testimony from the Palestinian side that Jewish rock throwers had been involved, but no one had been caught to date.
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