Hamas man killed in W. Bank; Al-Aqsa threatens to end truce

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More peace and tranquility breaking out all over.

Undercover Border Police troops on Wednesday shot dead a Hamas activist and wounded two members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank city of Qalqilyah.

Following the raid, the Al-Aqsa Brigades threatened to scrap the de facto cease-fire if the Israeli military did not halt raids against their members within 24 hours.

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Also Wednesday, Mustafa Basharat, 30, mayor of the northern West Bank village of Atouf, was killed by an explosion after he took his cows to graze in an area where the IDF conducts live-fire exercises, medics said. The military had no comment.

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But as PA officers arrived at the junction for a coordination meeting with IDF counterparts, settlers rioted and punctured the tires of the PA cars, the radio saod. IDF troops then separated the two groups physically, preventing further clashes.

Haaretz

[ashiebr]

1. settlers rioted and punctured the tires of the PA cars..............

...............IDF troops then separated the two groups physically.

Not, you will note, "IDF soldiers arrested the settlers".

[eyl]

2. Actually

from the JPost:

"PA Police, settlers and the IDF clashed on Wednesday when a scheduled security coordination meeting near Neveh Dekalim was interrupted by settlers protesting in the parking lot. As a result of the clash, two settlers were wounded and five detained."

[QueerJustice]

3. no reply?

[Djinn]

4. you know there's a difference between

detained and arrested right - a really big difference

[eyl]

5. I know

But since I don't have a follow-up, I don't know if they were arrested in the end or not - they'd likely be detanied at first in either case - they'd be arrested on the spot only if they forcibly resisted the police (because of Israeli Police operational guidelines which I won't get into). Besides, he question is if the reporter is aware (or cares) about the difference.