Seeking to incite a dispute between Jewish residents of Bat Ayin and local Arabs, left-wing Israelis were part of a group of about 30 that violated an IDF ban and tried entering the Gush Etzion community on Shabbos.
According to a Ynet report, one of the group’s members sustained a fractured arm in a scuffle with security forces and one Arab was also injured.
The left-wingers accuse Bat Ayin residents of stepping up violence and vandalism attacks against Arab farmers since the terror attack in April which claimed the life of one of the community’s residents. The left-wingers insist that due to the violence, the local Arab farmers are having difficulties in working their fields, adding on several occasions, their trees and crops have been uprooted.
The IDF reports that the area was declared a ‘closed military zone’ in an effort to avoid conflict. When the left-wingers and Arabs ignored the IDF ban on entering the area, they were detained, questioned, and eventually released.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Why are the “left wingers” and Arabs detained and released while charedi protesters are kept in jails? Of course I can’t expect them to treat charedim the same way as the left wingers but there should be some semblance equality.