Monthly Archives: February 2020

Monday, February 10, 2020, 15:52 On Monday, February 10, Defense Minister and chairman of the Yamina political party, Naftali Bennett, signed on a administrative detention order for an approximately 19-year-old Jewish youth. The order was signed several minutes after the … Continue reading →

Monday, February 10, 2020, 10:07 On Sunday, February 2, border police impounding construction equipment brutally assaulted protesters at Geulat Tzion in the Binyamin region. Video clips documenting the incident reveal a particularly violent confrontation on the part of the border … Continue reading →

Sunday, February 9, 2020, 16:40 On Sunday, February 9, Shomron Military Court Judge Lieutenant Colonel Samzar Shagog ruled that the father of the Barkan terrorist had known that his son possessed a weapon, but had not been aware that his … Continue reading →

Saturday, February 8, 2020, 21:48 On Shabbat, Saturday, February 8, the GSS extended by 48 additional hours the order preventing one of the GSS detainees from meeting with an attorney. An additional detainee is prohibited from meeting with an attorney … Continue reading →

Thursday, February 6, 2020, 15:47 Investigative material from the Police Investigation Unit on an incident in which border policemen filmed boys from Yitzhar immersing naked in a spring customarily used by residents as a mikveh (ritual bath) – see here … Continue reading →

Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 14:08 On Wednesday, February 5, the GSS announced a two-day extension to the prohibition of the youth, detained on Sunday, to meet with an attorney. The detainee has been interrogated for four days without meeting with … Continue reading →

Monday, February 3, 2020, 20:10 On Monday, February 3, an approximately 18-year-old Ariel resident was detained by the GSS and the police. He was taken to the GSS facility in the central region of Israel, served with an order prohibiting … Continue reading →

Protesters; Video credit: Geulat Tzion Sunday, February 2, 2020, 16:31 On the afternoon of Sunday, February 2, army and border police forces impounded an excavator being used for construction in the Shilo Bloc. Dozens of area residents blocked the security … Continue reading →

Sunday, February 2, 2020, 14:20 On the morning of Sunday, February 2, GSS forces detained an approximately 20-year-old youth in the Shilo Bloc, searched his place of work and refused to divulge the reason for his detention. He has been … Continue reading →

Sunday, February 2, 2020, 12:40 The “Mivtan”, the department of the Justice Ministry authorized to investigate complaints by GSS interrogatees, opened an investigation into suspected sexual harassment of one of the GSS detainees during his interrogations, which were conducted while … Continue reading →