AWARTA, West Bank, March 29 (UPI) -- The mayor of a Palestinian village said scores of residents have been arrested by Israel since the slaying of an Israeli family in a nearby settlement.
Qayas Awad is the mayor of Awarta, a Palestinian village near the Israeli settlement of Itamar southeast of Nablus, where earlier this month five members of the Fogel family, including two children and a baby, were stabbed to death in their sleep. He told the Ma'an news agency that his deputy and scores of other residents were arrested by the Israel Army early Tuesday and taken to undergo DNA tests and questioning.