Yitzchak Pass of Hevron, whose 10-month-old daughter Shalhevet was murdered in March by the PLO, was arrested, interrogated, and released by Hevron police this afternoon. The police arrested him while he was on his way to Jerusalem with his wife Oriyah and their one-month-old daughter Renanah Nechamah.
When he was asked questions about events that had occurred the day before his daughter was murdered, during a demonstration protesting the first terrorist attack upon Gilad Zar, Yitzchak became very upset and ran from the room. (Zar, the security officer of the Shomron Regional Council, has several siblings living in Hevron; he was wounded in a terrorist attack in March, and two months later was murdered in a second attack.) Yitzchak was forcibly returned by police, who demanded that he sign a bail guarantee in return for his release. He was released a few minutes later without signing.
A Hevron spokesman issued the following statement:
\"It\'s not enough that we are attacked and shot at daily. It\'s not enough that gunfire echoes throughout Hevron late at night and in the early hours of the morning. It is not enough that women and children are shot at. It is not enough that a 10-month-old was shot and killed. What is enough? Harassment of Hevron\'s residents, harassment of Yitzchak and Oriyah Pass, bereaved parents whose first daughter was murdered in front of their eyes.
\"Since the arrival of Hevron\'s new police chief, the police have begun a campaign of intentional harassment against men, women and children. Police are crawling around Hevron neighborhoods, and are stopping busses and automobiles, demanding that people identify themselves, as if we were living in Russia... Rather than deal with the terrorists who attack us and shoot at us, the police have chosen to harass us.
\"But let there be no mistake. They will not succeed in breaking us. We call on Public Security Minister Uzi Landau to put an immediate stop to unwarranted police actions against Hevron\'s Jewish population.\"
Arutz-7 has learned of several other recent and blatant examples of police harassment in Hevron. These include the issue of a warrant for an arrest of a 7-year-old boy; the day-long arrest of a student on his way to his first day in high school; a two-day arrest of singer Sinai Tor, with no charges being filed; the arrest for several days of a teenage girl; the ignoring of Jewish complaints against Arabs; and more.
When he was asked questions about events that had occurred the day before his daughter was murdered, during a demonstration protesting the first terrorist attack upon Gilad Zar, Yitzchak became very upset and ran from the room. (Zar, the security officer of the Shomron Regional Council, has several siblings living in Hevron; he was wounded in a terrorist attack in March, and two months later was murdered in a second attack.) Yitzchak was forcibly returned by police, who demanded that he sign a bail guarantee in return for his release. He was released a few minutes later without signing.
A Hevron spokesman issued the following statement:
\"It\'s not enough that we are attacked and shot at daily. It\'s not enough that gunfire echoes throughout Hevron late at night and in the early hours of the morning. It is not enough that women and children are shot at. It is not enough that a 10-month-old was shot and killed. What is enough? Harassment of Hevron\'s residents, harassment of Yitzchak and Oriyah Pass, bereaved parents whose first daughter was murdered in front of their eyes.
\"Since the arrival of Hevron\'s new police chief, the police have begun a campaign of intentional harassment against men, women and children. Police are crawling around Hevron neighborhoods, and are stopping busses and automobiles, demanding that people identify themselves, as if we were living in Russia... Rather than deal with the terrorists who attack us and shoot at us, the police have chosen to harass us.
\"But let there be no mistake. They will not succeed in breaking us. We call on Public Security Minister Uzi Landau to put an immediate stop to unwarranted police actions against Hevron\'s Jewish population.\"
Arutz-7 has learned of several other recent and blatant examples of police harassment in Hevron. These include the issue of a warrant for an arrest of a 7-year-old boy; the day-long arrest of a student on his way to his first day in high school; a two-day arrest of singer Sinai Tor, with no charges being filed; the arrest for several days of a teenage girl; the ignoring of Jewish complaints against Arabs; and more.