Israel arrests Golan Druze man for 'security' crimes

Hundreds of Druze residents of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights surrounded a building in the main town of Majdel Shams on Sunday, trapping inside policemen on a search operation, police said.Several policemen were searching for "criminals" inside the building, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, adding that reinforcements were called in and negotiations with the crowd underway to end the standoff.Rosenfeld said the operation was not political, adding there were no reports of injuries.

Israeli police clashed on Sunday with some 200 Palestinian protesters in an Arab neighbourhood of east Jerusalem that is the planned site of a controversial archaeological park, police said.The protesters threw stones and fire bombs at a Jewish home in the area before private security guards fired in the air and police were called in to disperse them, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.Six policemen were lightly injured in the clashes, said Rosenfeld. He had no details on any casualties among the protesters.

Israeli police on Sunday arrested a West Bank settler in connection with the fatal shooting of a Palestinian teenager four months ago, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said."A male from Yitzhar has been detained for questioning over the March 15 incident on Route 60 in which a Palestinian was killed," Rosenfeld told AFP, referring to a settlement just outside the northern city of Nablus.Ayssar Yasser al-Zaben, 16, from Mazra ash-Sharqiya near Ramallah was shot dead by the roadside of the main north-south artery linking settlements in the occupied territory.

Israeli security forces on Tuesday arrested nine Palestinians in a second raid in as many days in a refugee camp in mainly Arab east Jerusalem after youths hurled stones at them."Nine people were arrested after border police and police came under attack from stone throwers," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.Several dozen youths could be seen hurling rocks, bottles and paint at security forces for the second consecutive day in the Shuafat refugee camp.

Israeli security forces went on high alert on Wednesday, mounting road blocks and additional patrols for fear that militants had infiltrated into central Israel, officials said."A security alert has been declared and we have stepped up patrols," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, declining to give details of the threat.Israeli rescue services said they were putting extra ambulances on standby.Public radio said there were warnings that Palestinian militants could have infiltrated into Israel near the central city of Kfar Saba.

Israeli police were on alert Thursday ahead of protests by ultra-Orthodox Jews of a court order jailing parents who refuse to let their daughters study alongside Jewish girls of Middle Eastern descent.Late Wednesday, officers used water cannon to disperse around 200 Orthodox Jews who protested in Jerusalem by throwing stones at police and disrupting traffic, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.

Israel will not withdraw from the whole of the Golan Heights, even as part of a peace deal with Syria, the country’s national security advisor said in an interview

Israeli police came under attack by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, after authorities demolished two buildings put up by settlers without authorisation, police said.Eight officers were lightly injured when a crowd of about 150 settlers hurled rocks at police vehicles and tried to slash their tyres, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.He said 10 settlers were arrested but he had no information about any injuries. Public radio said 10 settlers were hurt by blows from batons or from tear gas inhalation.