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www.timesofisrael.com
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The IDF releases footage showing the moments a military patrol was subject to massive stone-throwing by Israeli settlers, in the West Bank, overnight between Friday and Saturday.
The incident took place at 12:37 a.m., some six kilometers (3.72 miles) from where a battalion commander and his forces were physically assaulted by settlers less than two hours earlier.
After coming under attack from 10-to-20 masked suspects who were hiding on a hill in an ambush, the commanding officer of the patrol ordered troops to make a U-turn, according to an IDF probe. The officer then briefly got out of the vehicle and fired three warning shots in the air, according to army protocol, to try and stop the stone throwing.
The officer advanced toward the masked suspects to continue a “suspect arrest procedure,” when he realized it was Jews and not Palestinians, as one shouted at him in Hebrew: “I’ll shoot you in the head, you son of a whore.”
The suspects then all fled the area.
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now you might ask, why where the settlers angry with the israeli occupying forces? The summary i found was the following
* settlers attacked the palestinian village of kfar malek, killing three people
* iof detained some of them, brought them to police, police immediately released them and closed the investigation
* iof declared it a closed military zone, told settlers not to attack again
* settlers went back to the village to kill more palestinians, iof showed up later and told them to cut that out
* settlers threw rocks at the iof, slashed their tires, yelled at them
* iof fired warning shots, settlers + Smotrich had meltdowns, with Smotrich saying that live fire "against Jews" is very evil (iof says it did not shoot any of the settlers)
amazing isn't it....
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