Source: BBC

Three Israeli children have been arrested on suspicion of fire-bombing a Palestinian taxi.

Six people were injured, two seriously, in the attack, which targeted an Arab family on their way to the supermarket in the West Bank. The three children, aged 12 to 13, are all from Bat Ayin, an Israeli settlement south of Jerusalem.

The incident is the second high-profile case this month where young Israelis have been accused of attacking Arabs.

Hours after the taxi attack, a mob of Jewish youths – some as young as 13 – attacked a Palestinian teenager in central Jerusalem, leaving him critically injured.

The taxi attack took place on 16 August near Bat Ayin as members of a Palestinian family, including two children, where travelling in the vehicle.

The car burst into flames and flipped over after being hit by the device.

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“Police have arrested three suspects, all of them between the ages of 12 and 13… under suspicion of being connected with the incident two weeks ago in which a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a Palestinian taxi,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP news agency.

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