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Israeli police arrest nine Palestinians on heels of J’lem operation

Monday 9-January-2017

The Israeli police arrested nine Palestinians in Occupied Jerusalem in the wake of the vehicle-ramming operation that happened in the city on Sunday afternoon.

According to the Hebrew website 0404 five of the detainees are relatives of Fadi al-Qanbar the young man who carried out the ramming attack.

All the nine detainees were taken for interrogation to an Israeli police station in the holy city.

Local sources also reported that an Israeli police force broke into and ransacked the house of al-Qanbar family in Jabel Mukaber neighborhood southeast of Jerusalem and arrested the wife of the martyr his parents and his brothers Mohamed and Munder.

Martyr Fadi al-Qanbar has four kids the youngest aged nine months.

He carried out his ramming operation which was hailed as heroic by the Palestinian resistance factions on a road near Armon Hanatziv settlement in Jerusalem.

Four Israeli soldiers were killed and at least 15 others suffered different injuries in this operation.

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