Israel arrests Palestinians over settler murders
Israel has arrested two Palestinian suspects in connection with the grisly murder of a young settler family, Israeli security officials said yesterday.
A senior army officer said he believed the killing of the Israeli couple and three of their children in the West Bank settlement of Itamar was not ordered by a militant group but was the outcome of a burglary that went wrong.
Both the suspects' family and their home village of Awarta have traditional allegiances to the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, but Aloni said he did not believe the young men were directed by any organisation.
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