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Three residents of Jerusalem’s Old City are in custody on suspicion of being connected to recent graffiti attacks in the Old City. the recent attack included a swastika and “Death to Jews” in Hebrew and Arabic.

There were a number of attack in which graffiti was painted onto the doors of stores in the so-called Muslim Quarter along with swastikas.

Police report the arrests were made on Monday, 10 Cheshvan and that while one of the suspects is a 14-year-old minor, the others are 18. The older suspects remain in custody and the minor was released to house arrest.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Photo Credit: Israel Police spokesman unit)