ERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli police have arrested five Israelis
involved in a Jerusalem wedding ceremony that incited violence towards
Palestinians, Israeli media reported Tuesday.



The groom of the wedding — reportedly a well-known member of the
radical right — was arrested in addition to an Israeli soldier and two
minors, Israeli daily Haaretz said.



Israeli police also arrested renowned extremist settler Daniel Pinner
from the illegal settlement of Tapuah, who was among a number of others
seen dancing with a gun in video footage of the wedding ceremony,
Haaretz reported, adding that Pinner’s attorney claimed the gun was a
toy.



Israeli police opened an investigation into the wedding last week after video footage aired by Israel’s Channel 10 went viral.



Israeli police spokesperson Luba al-Samri said in a statement at the
time that the investigation was opened due to “numerous and serious
offenses seen in the video.”



The video shows Israelis present at the wedding dancing and singing songs of revenge while waving knives and guns in the air.



At one point during the ceremony, a masked Israeli youth waves a
firebomb while another stabs a photo of Ali Dawabsha, an 18-month-old
Palestinian burned alive in an arson attack carried out by Jewish
extremists over the summer.



The infant’s parents later died from severe burns, leaving their four-year-old child Ahmad as the sole survivor of the attack.



Controversy over the video erupted as Israel’s right slammed Israel’s
internal security agency Shin Bet for its investigation into the
Dawabsha murders, which has increased internal tensions within the
national religious right.



Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the wedding video
showed “the real face of a group that poses danger to Israeli society
and security,” days after the Shin Bet warned that Jewish terror organizations were aiming to “violently overthrow” the Israeli government.

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