Seven Palestinians, including an 18-year-old woman, were arrested by Israeli troops in the northern West Bank on Friday, Palestinian security sources said. Ritab Aslan, a high school student, was arrested at her home in Nablus, the sources said. Israeli military sources confirmed the arrest saying she was âsuspected of involvement in terrorist activities.â Two other Palestinian teenage girls were nabbed in Nablus on Wednesday. The military sources said they had been recruited by militants groups to participate in future suicide attacks.
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The Palestinian sources said another six men belonging to an offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafatâs Fatah party -- the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades -- were arrested in Jenin. The army could not immediately confirm those arrests. |