Slippery Slope

Right-wing activist Baruch Marzel was arrested after failing to report for police questioning to which he was summoned on suspicion of assaulting Palestinians.

(Hebrew)

A police officer gave an order to carry out arrests of demonstrators as soon as a demonstration of right-wing activists against the arrest of their comrades began last tuesday.

(Hebrew)

During a discussion at the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee on law enforcement in the occupied territories, Commander Haim Rahamim, head of the investigations and intelligence wing of the Judea and Samaria Police District in the West Bank, said that 228 incidents of attacks against security forces by right-wing activists were recorded in the past year in the West Bank – not including verbal threats – and that dozens of mosques were torched.  65 indictments were served against right-wing activists for assault and vandalism, and 10 people were arrested for mosque torching, but they were released without an indictment beings served.  According to Rahamim, the police “has a problem with gathering evidence due to the locations where the crimes are committed.”

An IDF officer exaggerated information in court in order to convince it to reverse a lower court’s decision to release right-wing activists who broke through the fence on the Jordanian border last month.

Security forces arrested six right-wing activists in the West Bank over suspicions they had been spying on Israel Defense Forces in the region. The arrests took place in Jerusalem as well as in West Bank settlements of Yitzhar, Itamar, Harsha, and Kiryat Arba.

Right-wing activists smashed windshields of police officers’ cars, who came to a Jerusalem apartment where other right-wing activists, expelled from Yizhar, were staying. The activists were wanted for investigation. According to some activists, police used excessive violence upon entering the apartment. Police found documents in the apartment, and a box of fake weapons. According to activists, the police even threw them out the windows of the apartment, injuring three of them.

(Hebrew)

In the last three months, a special team of 30 police officers has been engaged in an intensive investigation against right-wing activists, responsible for a series of cases of violence and vandalism against Palestinians and IDF forces in the West Bank.  So far, the team has failed to produce any significant progress.

(Hebrew)

Approximately 40 right-wing activists broke through the border fence near the Jordanian border and established an outpost near the Qasr al-Yahud holy site in the buffer zone, near the Allenby Bridge.

(Hebrew)