OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man during an arrest operation on Tuesday in the West Bank, the military said. It said Palestinians in the refugee camp of Qalandiya, north of Al-Quds, began throwing stones at soldiers during the operation and that they responded with live fire, killing one man, and wounding another. Palestinian medical officials identified the dead man as 20-year-old Mahmoud Abdalla. Meanwhile, Israeli police on Tuesday arrested 10 members of extremist anti-Arab group Lehava which has been linked to an attack last month on a Jewish-Arab school. The attack, which incited violence against Arabs and equated them to a "cancer", sparked a wave of condemnation and came amid months of rising tensions and unrest in Israel and the Palestinian territories. "Ten suspects, members of the Lehava organization, have been arrested for questioning following incitement and calls for racist acts of violence and terror," the police said in a statement. The suspects were arrested at their homes in the Israeli towns of Petah Tikva and Netivot, as well as in Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Police also seized computers belonging to the suspects. Among those detained was Lehava leader Bentzi Gopstein, who lives in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron. Gopstein's lawyer said the arrests were political. — Agencies
