By Alaa Rimawi
JERUSALEM
Israeli police have detained six Palestinian youths from Jerusalem under the allegation that they had partaken in attacks against Israeli targets.
Four of the detained youths, aged between 15 and 17, face accusations of trying to torch a petrol station in East Jerusalem, the police said in a statement carried by the Israeli radio.
The remaining two were arrested in Silwan neighborhood in the possession of Molotov cocktails before attacking Israeli targets, the release added.
Israeli forces stage daily raids into the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
They have detained hundreds of Palestinians since the disappearance and subsequent killing of three Jewish settlers in the West Bank in mid-June.
Several Hamas lawmakers, former ministers and dozens of detainees -who had been released as part of a 2011 prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel – have since been detained.
The number of Palestinians currently detained by Israel has recently risen to a whopping 7,000, according to the Palestinian Ministry for Prisoners Affairs.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War. It later annexed the holy city in 1980, claiming Jerusalem as the unified capital of the self-proclaimed Jewish state.
englishnews@aa.com.tr
www.aa.com.tr/en
