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Bedouin being held in murder of two Israeli women

by JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel is holding a Bedouin man in connection with the murder of two women in Wadi Kelt, a popular hiking sit, The suspect was identified as Ahmed Mahmoud Ali Ka'abneh, a shepherd who lives near the site of the killing.

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Yossi Sidbon, the head of Judea and Samaria district police, said five members of Ka'abneh's family had been detained and that his mother had already been charged with helping to destroy evidence.

Investigators said that Ka'abneh -- who admitted to the killings -- acted out of nationalistic motives.

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