Article: ISRAEL: ISRAELI POLICE ARREST YOUTH AND FORCE THEM TO PROFANE SABBATH.

In the latest crackdown on West Bank Jews, Israeli police arrested a teenager and forced him to profane the Sabbath as part of a campaign to roundup and investigate youth who protest against the government. "Plain-clothed detectives came from behind and arrested me at 9.30 on Shabbat [the Sabbath] morning," the youth said. "They took me to the police station and held me until the end of Shabbat. They wanted to keep me until the investigation on Sunday but then they released me." The youth said he was arrested at the Netzer outpost, located in the Etzion bloc of Jewish communities, and forced to ride in a police car to the police station at the Etzion junction, despite ...

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