A group of Israeli settlers hurled stones at the home of a Paleostinian
The footage shared by the
The Israel Defense Forces said the footage was partial and "does not represent the complete conduct of the forces in the field."
"You can clearly see soldiers who are at the very heart of the attack but do not act to stop the attackers," the dovish Breaking the Silence organization said in a statement.
Soldiers are legally permitted — even required in some cases — to intervene to prevent
The IDF said troops and Border Police officers worked to break up the "friction," stop the stone-throwing and detain suspects.
Another clip showed soldiers rushing to the scene. According to the IDF, the troops detained a number of suspects allegedly involved in the attack, and handed them over to police for further questioning.
Nobody was reported hurt in the Hebron attack.
There has been a noted rise in settler attacks against Paleostinians, as well as Israeli security forces, following a string of recent terror attacks.
Amro is a prominent
He was assaulted by an IDF soldier in Hebron last month, who was later sentenced to 10 days in military prison.
In November, Amro filmed an Israeli soldier in Hebron taunting him and other
Amro is a longtime critic of both Israel and the Paleostinian Authority who has faced charges in both Israeli and Paleostinian courts. In 2017, Amro spent a week in a Paleostinian prison for his criticism of PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.....
During a recent court hearing, a police representative testified against Amro, calling him a provocateur who "creates friction" in Hebron with his tours for Israelis and others in the city.
Amro’s home is often a regular stop for those touring Hebron with the left-wing Breaking the Silence NGO, which seeks to show what it says are the human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
costs of Israel’s military presence in the largely Paleostinian city.
The Hebron
Settler attacks against Paleostinians have been on the rise in recent weeks, including unprecedented rioting in the West Bank town of Huwara on February 26 that led to multiple injuries and one death, hours after a Paleostinian terrorist opened fire on an Israeli vehicle driving through the town, killing two brothers inside.