Police brutality at Amona
Police brutality at AmonaIsrael News Photo: (archive)

A Jerusalem court has ordered the police to provide the names of policemen involved in the brutality against demonstrators at the community of Amona two years ago.

Judge Anat Ziner also ruled that police must disclose the orders concerning the use of clubs and mounted police.

The incident occurred on February 1, 2006 when Israel Police were ordered to expel protestors from the site of a new neighborhood in the Samarian Jewish community of Amona, near Ofra, 12 miles north of Jerusalem. Nine homes were in the process of being built, some close to completion, at the site.

More than 200 protestors, including many youths, were injured by the police, who were filmed using excessive force during the demonstration against the evacuation. Dozens of police officers were injured as well when protestors began to fight back.

Judge Ziner issued the order following an appeal by the Yesha Human Rights group asking the court to provide information for a civil suit that involves a young girl who was trampled by mounted police and suffered wounds.

The police were given 30 days to disclose the information.

Lawyers for the plaintiff, Rivka Turgeman, stated in the civil suit that the young girl suffers 10 percent incapacitation from the wounds she sustained when she was trampled by police horses while sitting on the ground.

Last month Magistrates Court Judge Yechezkel Barclay found Police Officer David Atiya of Petach Tikva guilty of "attacking with no reason" by goring a youth in the head with his helmet during the protest at Amona.

Another lawsuit filed against the police has charged an officer with clubbing a youth as well.