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Knesset Decides to Probe Police Violence at Amona
Full Text;
“The Knesset decided to establish a committee for to probe the violent evacuation of the illegal Amona outpost.”
“The vote was 37 in favor of investigating police activity, and 32 against the probe.”
For more; read this report: Knesset to Set Up Committee to Probe Amona Violence
Knesset Expected to Approve Amona Probe
Full Text;
“The Knesset was expected on Wednesday to approve the establishment of a parliamentary investigative committee assigned to study the violence seen during the destruction of the nine structures in Amona last week.”
“Opposition parties from both the right and the left overcame legal obstacles preventing the move, occurring while the Knesset is in recess ahead of the elections, allowing the establishment of the committee in spite of Kadima’s objection, according to Army Radio.”
“MK Uri Ariel (National Union) stated: The committee will determine whether Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was telling the truth, or whether there were inaccuracies or lies. ‘If it is found that I was not telling the truth, I will resign from the Knesset,’ he promised.”
For more details, photos, videos, testimonies regarding the Police Riot, Brutality, Molestation, etc., click on the IRIS Police Brutality in Amona page.
Labor Party Pull Out From Amona Probe
Full Text;
“After prior statements supporting a parliamentary probe of the brutality that occurred during last week’s evacuation of nine Jewish houses in Amona, the Labor Party on Wednesday has now backed out.”
“Labor Party chairman Amir Peretz decided together with senior members that the party’s support for the investigation would hurt their chances at the polls, according to Ynet news service.”
“The Knesset was slated to hold a special session on Wednesday to discuss forming a parliamentary investigative committee on the matter.”
Commentary;
In the name of Politics, and upcoming elections, Police Violence and Brutality against the electorate is expedient. MB
Naveh: Intensity of Resistance at Amona Unexpected
Full Text;
“The IDF did not expect the intensity and level of resistance they met at the evacuation of the Amona outpost last week, said Central Command Chief Yair Naveh.”
“The army forces present during the evacuation would have handled the matter differently had they known ahead of time what they were facing, he said.”
“Naveh spoke at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday.”
Commentary;
The excuses and alibis begin. Undoubtedly, had the expulsion forces
known of the “intensity and level of resistance” beforehand, they would undoubtedly have come prepared with lethal weapons and shoot-to-kill orders. We are living in A Police-State Regime! MB
On Alleged “Violence” Against Police
A Report from a Medic, Who Took Care of the Wounded from Amona
Excerpts:
“By 16.30 there were 215 wounded brought to five Jerusalem hospitals. 59 were police. I transferred the only so called badly injured policeman from Haddasah Har Hatzofim to Ein Karem.”
“The facts: He was walking, fully conscious, violent – he threatened injured settlers in the emergency room with physical violence. His injury was a bad cut under the eye and he was transferred because Ein Karem has plastic surgeons and he needed their services.”
“All the other police injured that I saw had minor cuts and bruises. None had broken bones that I am aware of. All the injured settlers I saw had broken bones, legs and arm injuries, and head wounds. A lot of blood.”
MK Eldad Files a Complaint: I Was Wildly Attacked
Excerpts;
“I was in Amona that morning in my capacity as a journalist. I knew my father, Jonathan Blass, who serves as rabbi of Neveh Tzuf, would be in Amona. Only a few days before he had delivered a sermon in the synagogue in which he called upon the adults to join the protest in Amona. He wanted them to participate not only in order to protest the demolition of Jewish homes but also to serve as a mature and calming force among the many teenagers who were expected on the scene.”
“My Brother’s call came after he heard Pinchas Wallerstein, head of the Binyamin Regional Council, on the radio describing how my father, standing near him, had been clubbed on the head by a mounted policeman. He assumed I was at the scene for work and immediately phoned me.”
“I finally found my father walking out of one of the tents, where he had been examined by a doctor. He held an ice pack to a bump on his head the size of my fist. He described how he and a group of adults had been standing outside one of the houses when the policemen rammed into them without warning.”
“A European journalist, standing nearby, overheard our conversation and could not help but ask my father, ‘They beat you on the head – an adult with a white beard and all?'”
“‘I was relatively lucky,’ my father replied. ‘A person standing next to me was struck in the eye after receiving a blow on the head.’ It was later reported that Yechiam Eyal, 15, was hospitalized in serious condition after receiving similar blows.”