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| Off-duty soldier among 4 detained in latest settler attack on Palestinian village after 4 Israelis gunned down near Eli Tuesday |
| 2023-06-25 |
History shows that when the government does not succeed, for whatever reason, in protecting the citizenry from violence and abuse, citizens will take their protection into their own hands, with considerably less discrimination as to their targets. In this case, Hamas announced the Eli gunmen — one shot mid-attack by a civilian, the other hunted down by the IDF — belonged to Hamas’s military wing, the Izzadin al-Qassam brigades. [IsraelTimes] Serviceman is suspected of involvement in Saturday rampage through Umm Safa in West Bank, where settlers set vehicles and homes ablaze and opened fire on civiliansAn off-duty Israeli soldier was one of four suspects detained over a Several dozen settlers rampaged through the village of Umm Safa, setting fire to vehicles and homes, and opening fire, on the fifth consecutive day of vigilante attacks targeting Paleostinian civilians since a Paleostinian terror shooting on Tuesday in which four Israelis were killed outside the settlement of Eli. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the soldier was detained by police after the rioting and was handed over to the Shin Bet security agency for further questioning. He was not on duty at the time of the incident. Earlier in the day, another three suspects were detained, Hebrew-language media reported. The IDF said that one suspect was detained by troops amid the rioting in Umm Safa, and was handed over to police. In the wake of Tuesday’s deadly terror attack carried out by Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-affiliated button men at a West Bank gas station, recent days have seen hundreds of settlers riot inside Paleostinian towns and villages, setting fire to homes, and cars, and even opening fire in some cases, including in Umm Safa on Saturday. According to Army Radio, the settlers had driven to the village to carry out the attack. Observant Jews do not drive on the Sabbath, unless it is a life or death situation, based on the Jewish legal principle of pikuah nefesh — as it’s known in Hebrew — which trumps nearly all other religious requirements. Later on Saturday, IDF chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai issued a joint statement strongly condemning the recent string of settler attacks on Paleostinians in the West Bank, branding them as "nationalist terrorism in the full sense of the term." "The security forces are working against these rioters, risking the lives of IDF soldiers, Israel Police officers and Shin Bet officers. This violence increases Paleostinian terror, harms the State of Israel and the international legitimacy of the security forces to fight Paleostinian terror, and diverts the security forces from their main mission against Paleostinian terror," the three bigwigs said. "The IDF, the Shin Bet and Israel Police are committed to continuing to act with determination and with all the means at our disposal to maintain security and the law in Judea and Samaria. The IDF will divert and increase forces to prevent such incidents in Judea and Samaria, and the Shin Bet will expand arrests, including administrative detentions against the rioters who act in a The IDF has admitted to having "failed" in stopping other settler riots in recent days. Hours after the Tuesday terror attack near the settlement of Eli where four Israelis were bumped off at a gas station, an unknown number of settler vigilantes rampaged through several Paleostinian towns in the northern West Bank, including Huwara, the scene of another deadly settler riot earlier this year after a terror attack. The next day, hundreds of settlers also tore through the Paleostinian towns of Turmus Ayya and Urif — shortly after the victims of the attack were buried — shooting at residents, setting homes, cars and fields on fire, and terrorizing residents. One Paleostinian — 27-year-old Omar Qattin — was killed in unclear circumstances in Turmus Ayya. Israeli police said on Friday they had arrested four people in connection with the violence, without giving further details. They were being questioned by the Shin Bet security agency. An earlier Times of Israel article, about the Hamas-led funeral for the Eli murderers adds: A Hamas spokesman claimed responsibility for the Eli attack on Tuesday, describing it as a “heroic” response to the deaths of seven Palestinians during heavy clashes between gunmen and Israeli troops in Jenin on Monday. Hamas said both the terrorists were its members.Channel 12’s Palestinian affairs correspondent Ohad Hemo said the attack had apparently been planned, directed and financed by Hamas in Gaza. This would mark an upgrade in the group’s activities in the West Bank. The attack is seen as being part of a wider strategy by the group to escalate tensions in the West Bank and portray itself as the true face of the Palestinian “resistance,” in contrast to the ruling Palestinian Authority, which much of the Palestinian public perceives as weak, corrupt and ineffective. According to a recent survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, if elections were held today, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh would receive support from 56% of the Palestinian population while current PA President Mahmoud Abbas would win only 33%. The PA has blocked elections from being held in the Palestinian territories since 2006. 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