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Saturday, February 6, 2016
[Palestinian arsonists] Netanyahu: We will prosecute those who burned Torah scrolls

Netanyahu: We will prosecute those who burned Torah scrolls
PM demands international community ‘condemn the desecration of a synagogue,’
which he blames on ‘incessant Palestinian incitement’
By Times of Israel staff February 6, 2016, 11:24 pm
http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-we-will-prosecute-those-who-burned-torah-scrolls/

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Saturday night that Israel would
track down and bring to justice the suspected Palestinian arsonists who set
fire to Torah scrolls at a West Bank outpost the night before.

“Last night a synagogue in Givat Sorek, in Gush Etzion, was set on fire by
Palestinians. We will prosecute the perpetrators of this crime. I expect the
international community to condemn the desecration of a synagogue, an act
that is the result of incessant Palestinian incitement,” the prime minister
said in a Facebook post that appeared in English and in Hebrew alongside an
image of the burned Torah scrolls.

The suspected attackers set fire to the scrolls at an outpost next to the
Karmei Tzur settlement in the West Bank. There were no injuries in the
incident, but the scrolls were badly damaged.

According to Karmei Tzur residents, the suspected arsonists piled up the
Torah scrolls and set them alight. Judea and Samaria police said that the
footprints of the suspects were found leading to a Palestinian village near
the town of Halhul, Ynet said.

The tent, which was unmanned at the time, overlooks the site where the
bodies of three Israeli teens were found after they had been abducted and
murdered by terrorists in June 2014.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Orthodox-nationalist Jewish
Home party, said the pictures of the burned scrolls “recall the darkest days
of our history.”

He urged security forces to quickly catch “the terrorists who did this.”
Bennett said “a red line has been crossed… and we will not allow this to go
unpunished.”

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