Prime Minister and Defense Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has instructed the Israel Defense Forces not to take part in a training program organized by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel on Sunday.
Netanayahu said, "This is a body that long ago became a political organization in every way," following the publication on Arutz Sheva of the invitation of the head of the Legal Advice Department in Judea and Samaria. The training, in cooperation with the Red Cross, will deal with international humanitarian law. Participants will hear, among other things, "issues of reality in Israel and the occupied territories."