Israel releases suspects held in raid

JERUSALEM:    Israel has released all suspects,
detained in raids as part of a probe into the
firebombing of a Palestinian home that killed
an 18 month -old child and his father,authorities
said Monday

They did not probe the number of those detained
in the raid early Sunday in wildcat Jewish settlement
outposts in the West Bank near the Paestinian
village of Duma ,where  the July 31  firebombing
occured ,Wildcat outpots in the Israel occupied,
West Bank are notorious for housing young
Jewish hardliners referred to as hilltop youth..

"All those  arrested yesterday for interrogation
have been released "a spokesman for the Shin Bet
domestic security agency told AFP without providing
further details

The raid came as Israel seeks to crack down on Jewish
extremists following the firebombing and the July
30 stabbing attack at a Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem
that killed a 16 year-old girl and wounded five
people.. The fire bombing also critically wounded
the toddler's mother and four year-old brother

The attacs were  not related ,but both have led
to pressure on authorities  and the government
to act against Jewish extremists accused of being
behind a series of hate crimes and nationalist
attacks..

In addition to Sunday's raids three alleged Jewish
extremist have been placed in a controversial
form of detention without trial usually used for
Palestinians.

Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu has labelled
the firebombong terrorism "an pledged to use
all legal means to track down the peretrators
but many have accused his government of being
too slow to address the problem of Jewish
exremism ....AFP