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| IDF arrests Palestinian suspect in firebombing of IDF soldier who didn’t respond |
| 2020-12-22 |
| [IsraelTimes] Military says suspect taken in for questioning a day after incident in northern West Bank that sparked right-wing anger. A Paleostinian man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a soldier at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank on Saturday evening, the army said. The incident has sparked right-wing fury since the soldier didn’t respond to the attack. A video of the incident shows a man emerge from a car at the checkpoint, near the settlement of Kedumim. He approaches the soldier and speaks with him for several moments before pulling out the Molotov cocktail, lighting it and hurling it at the soldier, who dodges. The man then runs away as the soldier watches, without responding to the attack. "Following intelligence and operational activity by the IDF and the Shin Bet, the suspect in the hurling of the Molotov cocktail last night towards an IDF fighter... was arrested," the military said in a statement. The suspect has been taken for questioning, according to the statement. The army said Saturday that it was also investigating the conduct of the soldier, a member of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance battalion, as well as other troops at the checkpoint, and viewed the incident gravely. IDF relieves soldier from combat duty after freezing in terror attack [Jpost] The IDF on Monday removed a soldier from his combat position following an incident in which he responded passively to an attack against him. The Golani soldier failed to act when a Molotov cocktail was hurled at him near the settlement of Kedumim on Saturday night. "Although it was a complicated situation, the soldier was expected to operate according to the [IDF’s] rules of engagement and to respond until the terrorist is neutralized," the IDF said Monday. Because of the complexity of the incident, his reinstatement to a combat roll will be reassessed in several months, it added. "We should see [victory] as a compass that guides us all the time and in all fields, in our operational activity and in exercises, in our day-to-day duties and in emergency cases, in our home front and in the front," IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi said Monday. "The value of victory is not a term that is reserved only for war. It is an integral component of the identity of a soldier." "Every soldier standing in front of an enemy, in his daily routine or in war, must be precise in his actions," he said. "He must act to initiate contact and to thwart every threat." |
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