Israel arrests two Palestinian 'snipers'

February 29, 2016 23:42

Israel's military announced today the arrests of two Palestinian brothers accused of being "snipers" who shot and wounded two civilians and two soldiers in Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

The shooting incidents took place near a flashpoint religious shrine known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque and to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs in late 2015 and early 2016.

They occurred amid a wave of Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis, but most of the assaults have been stabbings.

The two arrested were Nazar Fizel Mohamed Badie, 23 and alleged to be an operative of the Islamist movement Hamas, and his brother, Akram Fizel Mohamed Badie, 33.

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