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Who are Israel's hilltop youth?

The suspects arrested for the murder of the Dawabsha family members belong to the extremist hilltop youth, who dream of rebuilding the Kingdom of Judea and consider the Israeli state their enemy.

A Palestinian boy rides his bicycle past the Dawabsheh family house near the West Bank city of Nablus, December 3, 2015. Members of a "Jewish terror group" have been arrested over a July arson attack on Dawabsheh home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that killed a toddler and his parents, Israeli police said on Thursday. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini - RTX1X11R
A Palestinian boy rides his bicycle past the Dawabsha family house in Douma village near the West Bank city of Nablus, Dec. 3, 2015. Members of a "Jewish terror group" have been arrested over a July arson attack on the Palestinian home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that killed a toddler and his parents, Israeli police said on Thursday. — REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

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