Palestinian youth detained for alleged involvement in killing of a rabbi in occupied West Bank last month
Israel’s internal security service Shabak has detained a Palestinian youth for alleged involvement in the killing of a rabbi in the occupied West Bank last month.
The rabbi had been stabbed and killed last month near the settlement of Ariel in the West Bank.
There was no reaction from the Palestinian side on the arrest.
Roughly 600,000 Israelis currently live on more than 100 Jewish-only settlements built in the West Bank since Israel occupied the territory -- along with East Jerusalem -- in 1967.
The Palestinians, for their part, want these areas -- along with the Gaza Strip -- for a future state of their own.
International law continues to view the West Bank and East Jerusalem as "occupied territories" and considers all Israeli settlement-building activity on the land as illegal.
