Dozens of police officers raided Mea Shearim overnight Monday at 3 a.m., with a list of ten wanted suspects at ten different addresses, for alleged offenses committed at violent protests against the Jerusalem light rail on Bar Ilan, including the destruction and damage of infrastructure.
The police only managed to locate and arrest one of the suspects but meanwhile, scuffles ensued, with some residents attacking the police and the police throwing shock grenades to disperse the crowd. At the end of the raid, three of the police officers had been injured by objects hurled at them by the residents, and the windows of a police car were shattered.
Furthermore, in one of the buildings that the police entered to locate a suspect, residents locked the officers inside the building via metal chains at the entrance. Additional police forces had to be called in to release the officers.
Dozens of police officers returned to the neighborhood hours later, on Tuesday morning, to arrest a suspect they have been seeking for over five months who was not at home during the night raid.
The police returned after receiving inside intelligence information that the suspect was now at home. However, when they entered the apartment they couldn’t find the suspect despite scouring every inch of the apartment. A few minutes later it became apparent that the suspect was right there – disguised as a woman!
כוחות משטרה פשטו בדקות האחרונות על מאה שערים ועצרו חשוד שניסה להתחפש לאישה pic.twitter.com/RykjY9V1Bz
— חיים גולדברג (@haim_goldberg) April 20, 2021
The suspect was also allegedly involved in burning yartzheit lamps and flowers left at the kevarim of fallen soldiers on Yom HaZikaron by their families, a horrific act widely condemned from the left to the right, including by UTJ MKs, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Kochavi.
This is the third raid the police have carried out in the neighborhood within the past week. Several suspects were arrested in the first raid on Motzei Shabbos.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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16 Responses
Catching only 1 out of 10 they were looking for is an abysmal failure by the Israelis.
Especially considering they used an entire police battalion of dozens of officers to attempt to hunt down ten misdemeanor accused of nothing more than civil disobedience.
What is worse:- Disparaging candles & flowers our fallen קדושים or violating ולא ילבש גבר שמלת אשה?
All this in addition to the despicable protests by ככר שבת on יום העצמאות.
All 3 of these acts are too shocking to have even been able to imagine such a horrendous act could ever have transpired, and that anyone could have have possibly sunken so deeply low.
ALL: Please do me a huge favor. I beg you. Just this once.
I understand you may have your reasons and your views.
Please, just on this article keep them bottled up.
propaganda
Just as you wouldn’t write an article discussing something that happened on “Ash Wednesday”, you similarly shouldn’t refer to the Zionist “Yom HaZikaron” as simply “Yom HaZikaron”.
At the very least, you should call it “Israel’s “Yom HaZikaron”, rather than the plain “Yom HaZikaron” which implies religious legitimacy that it does not have.
Police doing their job, some Jews not doing theirs
sent them to Iran there where they belong.Not to work but take money from the State thats all they do.
Keep it up! The vast majority of Ramat Eshkol residents want the Rakevet Kala.
yankele how about u go along with them to iran
Yankele, these Jews don’t take a dime from the state. W
Wouldn’t, touch it with a ten foot pole.
Why should I make aliyah? If I want to experience anti-religious bias I can just stay in NY with Cuomo and DiBlasio.
What a shame from the Israel police,
They waking up small kids @ 3 am,
Is this normal?
+ they arrested false people, they only know last names, they aresstung 5 people till they got the correct one,
Is this normal?
Israel is like Korea,
Think jews need to move out from israel to much hate against erlicha yidden there,
It’s a shame the police there doesn’t take volunteers for jobs such as these; I’d be over the next day if they would.
@PittedOlive
You seem like the type of troll hiding behind a big boy keyboard who would get his olive pitted on a job like this. So I advise you to stay home and try to control your hatred of the frummer than thou.
5TResident – Police searching for and arresting violent criminals is ‘anti-religious bias’? In any event, if you really do not understand why you should make Aliyah – you really should not. Until you do, you belong in NY with Cuomo and De Blasio. I daven that all Jews return to Israel bimhera beyameinu but you are clearly not yet ready. May HKBH open your eyes and heart soon.
israeli police are a pack of nazis with their 3 am raids
they are so over the top
may they all rot in hell