This is an entry from: LIVE BLOG: Violence in Jerusalem
Israel releases relatives of attack suspects
19 November 2014 13:44 GMT
Israeli police late Tuesday released nine relatives of two Palestinian attackers who had been detained earlier in the day, a lawyer told Ma'an news agency.
Israeli police raided the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood on Tuesday and detained 12 family members of Ghassan Abu Jamal and his cousin Uday after they entered a synagogue in Jerusalem and killed five Israelis with meat cleavers, knives and guns.
A lawyer for the Addameer prisoners' rights group said that police kept two brothers of Abu Jamal and the brother of Uday in prison custody.