"Fighters of the Kingdom of Israel" Claim Responsibility for Killing Eight Palestinians

RAMALLAH: A militant Jewish group distributed a leaflet this weeks claiming responsibility for killing eight Palestinians in the past year, saying that the killings were revenge for attacks against Israelis.

Police spokesman Rafi Yaffe said that they were investigating the group.

The Jewish militants who call themselves the “Fighters of the Kingdom of Israel,” named the places where the shootings took place and warned Palestinians to “prepare shrouds” for more burials.

“In the actions of our fighters ... eight Arabs were killed and many wounded,” read the leaflet, which was obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday. “Jews who are fed up have arisen and decided to get revenge against the Arab enemy!”

The leaflet mentioned an attack in an Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem where a bomb planted at a school in March injuring a teacher and four children.

Local sources indicated that the group has been actively recruiting Israeli civilians to join them to “inflict additional death on the Palestinians and their children.”

In the 1980s, a group of Jewish extremists bombed the cars of Arab mayors in the West Bank, seriously injuring two of them and an Israeli police bomb-disposal expert. Another group plotted to blow up mosque in the walled-Old City of Jerusalem but was arrested before it carried out the plot.

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