Violent confrontations broke out on Wednesday morning between Border Police and Civil Administration officers and Jewish protesters during the uprooting of an orchard near Shilo in the Shomron, which was planted on supposedly “disputed land,” according to the Supreme Court.
Hundreds of police officers with bulldozers faced off against hundreds of Jews, mostly teens, who tried to stop the uprooting of the trees.
Videos of the scene show police officers acting with shocking violence toward protesters, with one policeman seen kicking a right-wing activist in his face.
In another video that caused an uproar, policemen were seen encircling Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech, in violation of her immunity as a Knesset member. When she tried to leave the ring of police officers, they claimed that they were “protecting her.”
In addition, Har-Melech said that she was assaulted by one of the policemen.
Following her complaint, Border Police commander Amir Cohen carried out a preliminary inquiry, during which he said that he “takes a serious view of this incident that does not reflect the values of the corps and its professionalism.” Additionally, he suspended three of the officers seen in the video until the end of the investigation.
The evacuation was carried out despite the opposition of Finance Minister Betzalel Smoritch, who is a minister in the Defense Ministry, and according to a coalition agreement was supposed to have received authority over the Civil Administration. Smotrich had ordered a freeze of the evacuation but was apparently undermined by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who ordered the Civil Administration to carry out the order.
Smotrich wrote an urgent letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu demanding that he halt the evacuation. In order to avoid a crisis, Netanyahu complied with Smotrich’s request but the order came too late as about 1,000 trees had already been uprooted.
Later on Wednesday, it was reported that Netanyahu called Smotrich and promised to immediately transfer power over the Civil Administration to him, as outlined in the coalition agreement between the Likud and the Religious Zionist Party.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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You destroyed trees. I would not go there. Shame.
Who cares about police fighting?
Who have a frum woman being head against her will by a circle of animal police why is that not mentioned in headline?
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I tying to cause attention to total missed headline and story
Please explain why they needed to uproot the trees
I understand that they were planted in violation of the agreement that no plantations should take place
However once they are there they are still life
Why and to who are they objectionable?
“this incident that does not reflect the values of the corps and its professionalism.”
Most ironic statement ever
Haaretz calls for blood in response to Netanyahu’s proposed legal reform which is due to aggressive lefty monopoly
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Channel 7, 16 Shvat 5783. 16.02.23:
Don’t call magav police. They are a military unit. It doesn’t matter whether they were deputized. They are drafted into the army in a compulsory draft. Whereas police choose their occupation voluntarily usually to fulfill their sadistic tendencies, magavniks are placed into that unit based on their prior history of sadistic behavior. There’s a difference.
Who destroys an orchard in Eretz Yisroel? Not even the orchards of our enemies are we to destroy in conquest of the land. These G-d-forsaken kofrim, so glad they all vaxed out.
You call this assault on MK for her protection ?
See the video ☝️
The Leftist orders who control boarders police kick and punch a civilian who is already on the ground like a punching bag. That civilian could have been murdered.
JEWISH LIFE MATTERS. JLM ☝️
Deep State the Mosad head is making THREATENING public comments on Israeli government. If that happens YOU KNOW THERE IS A DEEP STATE.