JERUSALEM, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Israel announced Jewish terrorist suspects will be detained without trial, following protests against an alleged radicalized Jewish fringe.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Sunday "administrative detention" laws in which suspects can be jailed for up to six months, typically used against alleged Palestinian radicals, would equally apply to Jewish citizens. He added the directive came as a response to two incidents, and subsequent protests, last week: the firebombing of a West Bank home in which an 18-month old Palestinian boy died, and the stabbing of six people, one of whom died, at Jerusalem's Gay Pride parade.