It is now permitted to report that eight Arabs were arrested, residents of Sachknin and Avlin, suspected of assaulting two IDF soldiers in Carmiel and at a Galil junction. An Akko court on Wednesday cleared the case for publication.

Police report the two are alleged of stealing the soldier’s weapons, which they in turn sold to criminal elements for NIS 34,000. The incidents occurred on January 3rd and February 25th of this year.

The first three arrested implicated the others and now eight are in custody. The suspects in custody are all Israeli citizens.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)