Jerusalem Justice Anat Zinner ordered Israel Police to disclose names of police who took part in using unjustifiable force against protestors in Amona in 2006.

Despite operating orders compelling police to exhibit their name tags, they were removed during the operation, the expulsion of Jews from the community adjacent to Ofrah in Shomron. Film footage is being used to document mounted and foot police beating unarmed civilians, and petitioners are demanding the identity of these policemen so they may proceed with lawsuits against them.

Zinner is also demanding police disclose the ‘orders of the day’ regarding the operational protocol that were given to police involved in the expulsion vis-à-vis the use of batons and other means of force.

In response to the Yesha human rights organization, the court gave Israel Police 30 days to respond. The human rights organization has documented injuries to some 200 people as a result of police violence, with some sustaining permanent disabilities.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)