Head of the Har Hevron Regional Council calls on the IDF and police to
issue orders against leftists who broke into town of Mitzpe Yair.
Yochai Dimri, head of the Har Hevron Regional Council, responded on
Saturday night to the incident in which leftist activists from the
Ta’ayush organization broke into the Jewish town of Mitzpe Yair during
Shabbat.
The four activists claimed that they were in the area to take
photographs and that they were attacked by local residents while doing
so. They were lightly injured and transferred to a local hospital.
"After the activists of the anarchist Ta’ayush organization supported
illegal Arab construction on state lands, they chose to disrupt the
Shabbat quiet of the residents of Mitzpe Yair, entering private homes,
photographing them and violating a closed military zone order in order
to create a provocation. Any healthy person who experiences a break-in
to his home would act to protect his home and his family and remove the
invading criminals," said Dimri.
"The leftist activists, when they understood that they were about to be
arrested, asked to be evacuated to the hospital, but from an examination
we conducted in the hospital, they were simply putting on a show meant
to produce headlines. We again call upon the IDF and the police to issue
restraining orders against the group. Their presence causes violations
of the law and harms our communities. Every community they come to later
suffers from burglaries and thefts and massive illegal construction by
Arabs. The time has come to put an end to this, once and for all,” he
added.
MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) commented on the provocation as well
and added, "Violent provocateurs who leave their home every Shabbat and
travel many kilometers to encourage and cooperate with Arab rioters and
trespassers who harm the settlement enterprise by using violence and
endangering the lives of the residents. It is reasonable to assume that
they were injured in the course of their own violence and that they are
making up stories about the local residents, who at worst had to protect
themselves from the rioters and invaders."
Responding to the incident, the IDF Spokesperson said, "This morning,
several Ta'ayush activists arrived at a site near Mitzpe Yair where
there is illegal Palestinian construction. After the construction tools
were confiscated, the activists walked towards the town in order to
provoke [residents], and a quarrel broke out between them and local
residents."
"IDF soldiers who were at the scene declared it a closed military zone
in order to prevent the continuation of the quarrel, but some of the
activists refused to evacuate and violated the orders…the activists
later left the area and the incident ended."
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