A Petach Tikva Magistrates Court Monday night extended by seven days the arrest of three youth who were taken into custody in a pre-dawn sweep at Yitzhar in Samaria Monday morning. They are suspected of damaging Arab property, and police stated they confiscated metal spikes allegedly intended for employ against Arabs.

 

Israelis media have assumed that the suspects are being investigated for the arson of an Arab mosque several months ago. Two of the suspects, all of them 20 years feeble, are citizens of Yitzhar, and one is from the nearby population of Elon Moreh