JERUSALEM
By Abdel-Raouf Arnaout
Israeli police have detained a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on claims of planning to attack an Israeli soldier.
"A 29-year-old Palestinian was arrested while trying to sneak into Israel with an axe," police wrote on its Twitter account on Thursday.
Police said that the detained Palestinians had planning to attack an Israeli soldier with the axe.
There was no comment from the Palestinian government.
Israeli forces have detained hundreds of Palestinians in the West Bank since the disappearance and subsequent killing of three Jewish settlers in mid-June.
Several Hamas lawmakers, former ministers and dozens of detainees – who had been released as part of a 2011 prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel – have since been detained.
The number of Palestinians currently detained by Israel has recently risen to a whopping 7,000, according to the Palestinian Ministry for Prisoners Affairs.
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