A police detective has acknowledged that Israeli police used Arab stone throwers to stop young Jews from hiking through Judea and Samaria on July 29, according to a report published by Independent Media Review Analysis (IMRA). Police detective Aharon Yair, when questioned by defense attorney Naftali Wurtzburger, admitted to a Jerusalem magistrate's court that special police forces, dressed in civilian clothing and police hats, waited with local Palestinian Authority Bedouins in ambush for the hikers to arrive in the area as part of a four-day journey. Wurtzburger called the police action a provocation.
Five Jews were arrested after Bedouins began pelting dozens of Jewish hikers with stones near Kochav HaShachar in Samaria. One of the armed escorts shot in the air to disband the attackers. All of the arrested trekkers were sentenced with periods of expulsion from Judea and Samaria, as well as fines.
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