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Official PA news agency calls Israeli city of Bnei Brak a “settlement”

Headline: "A settler threatens to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque in a WhatsApp group"
"Israeli sources reported today (Thursday) [June 8, 2017] that a Jewish settler from the settlement of Bnei Brak (i.e., an Israeli city in central Israel) threatened to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque in a WhatsApp group.
The [Israeli] newspaper Israel Today noted that the Tel Aviv police received a complaint on a threat to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque on WhatsApp, and immediately opened an investigation until it succeeded in reaching the settler that published the threat…
A police representative said during the discussion on the suspect’s detention that his action was serious, and that the threat to blow up the site constitutes a strategic danger…
The judge extended the detention of the settler by three days and requested to send him for psychiatric evaluation."

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