Honenu Attorney Moshe Poleski; Photo credit: Honenu
Sunday, March 10, 2024, 9:07 Honenu Attorney Moshe Poleski wrote a letter to the police demanding that they suspend a border police officer who assaulted two minors from his duties. Last week, the minors took part in a demonstration protesting the passage of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom Crossing. When the police started to remove protesters from the site, the officer in question brutally assaulted one of the minors, detained him, and took him into the Netivot Police Station. When the minor arrived at the station with additional detainees, the officer assaulted another minor. The officer was not wearing an identifying badge as required by law. After the assault, one of the minors asked the duty officer for the personal details of the violent officer and was refused.
In his letter, Attorney Poleski stated that the officer committed serious crimes, among them assault, making threats, and abuse of power. He asked the police to gather evidence from the security cameras at the police station that recorded the assault on the second minor and order the immediate suspension of the officer.
Honenu Attorney Moshe Poleski: “It is unacceptable for the Israel Police to send violent officers who brutally attack minors at the scene and also in the police station to remove minors protesting against ‘humanitarian’ aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip, which end up in the hands of Hamas terrorists and constitute support of terror. This is a scandal, and there is a concern that the violent officer is acting in accordance with the ‘ruah hamefaked [tone set by a commander]’. We will demand that the violent officer be immediately suspended from his duties and put on trial.”