“The cabinet views the arson and murder in Duma as a terrorist act in every sense of the term,” the government said in a statement.
“The cabinet is instructing the security services to take all necessary steps to bring those responsible to justice and to prevent similar acts in the future,” it said.
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The use of administrative detention has been approved by the attorney general, Yehuda Weinstein.
In the aftermath of a deadly arson attack on a Palestinian family by suspected far right terrorists, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon ordered security forces to activate their powers to place far right figures in administrative detention.
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