Border Police officer lightly injured after settlers stone his jeep

• Author: TOVAH LAZAROFF
• Published date: 12 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Three police vehicles in total were damaged as Border Police and the group of settler extremists clashed during the evacuation of the tent, which was illegally situated in a closed military zone.

As Border Police left the scene, a number of the Jewish extremists threw rocks and paint bombs at the vehicle, which shattered a window.

The Border Police officer was injured from the flying glass and was treated at the scene.

Metal spikes were also placed on the road in an attempt to further harm the vehicles, the Border Police said.

Officers used riot dispersal means to quell the violence, said police.

Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev and IDF Chief-of-Staff Aviv Kohavi condemned the attack on the Border Police.

"Violence against [security forces] is a criminal act which requires a quick and vigorous extraction of justice," Kochavi said.

Bar-Lev said there was no difference between "militias of Jewish hooligans attacking and wounding" Border Police officers in Yitzhar and the Arabs who assault police in Kafr Qassem.

In both cases governance was abandoned to "criminal fringe elements," Bar Lev said.

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