Pictures of police involved in violence have been posted on the internet, and protests have been organized outside police headquarters. In addition, the car of the commander of the operation was torched outside his home Tuesday night – though it is unclear that the vandalism is related to the events at Amona.
Deputy Police Commander of Judea and Samaria Brig.-Gen. Meir Boukobza awoke during the night Tuesday to find his private car completely burned. Boukobza had been the senior officer on the ground in Amona, overseeing the violent destruction of nine homes in the community two weeks ago.
Another vehicle next to Bukobza's car was also burned. Neither of the vehicles bore red police license plates, and both were parked in front of the officer's home in the town of Shoham, near Ben Gurion Airport. Advance surveillance of the home by the vandals is therefore indicated. Boukabza's home address is not listed in the phone book and his home has been under constant police surveillance since the expulsion, for fear of reprisals by activists or relatives of those brutalized or sexually abused at the clashes.
A special Central District police investigatory unit has been formed to locate those responsible.
Though there is no evidence linking the vandalism with the violence in Amona, police told the media they suspect it was the work of "right-wing activists," but do not rule out criminal motives.
The anti-settlement Peace Now group immediately issued a statement blaming the attack on "wild incitement by settler leaders and right-wing Knesset members." MK Avshalom Vilan (Meretz-Yahad) blamed the attack on MK Effie Eitam, who suffered a head injury at Amona.
MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union), whose arm was broken in Amona, said Tuesday that the Division for the Investigation of Police Officers (Machash) cannot be relied upon to examine the events of Amona fairly. "Now it is finally clear that our claims that Machash whitewashes the investigations of officers are correct," MK Eldad said. "The advancement of Machash investigators depends upon their commanding officers in the police – the very ones they are supposed to be investigating. There is no chance that a Machash investigation will deal fairly against those who carried out criminal acts in Amona. Therein lies the necessity for the establishment of an external commission of inquiry."
Hundreds of educators from the national-religious education system protested Tuesday outside the national police headquarters in Jerusalem. The protestors - rabbis and teachers from around the country - stood for more than an hour in heavy rain to express their demand for justice in the case of both those who used excessive force and those who issued orders to employ excessive force.
Among the protesters were Rabbi Chaim Druckman, head of the B'nei Akiva yeshiva network, as well as centrist rabbis affiliated with the Tzohar rabbinical outreach organization.
The Association for Human Rights in Judea and Samaria uploaded photographs of 150 police and Yassam brigade members who took part in the violence at Amona Tuesday. Each picture is numbered in order to enable those who were injured to identify their attackers. "Since most of the police in Amona took the illegal measure of removing their name tags, this album is necessary in order to properly identify them," chairperson Orit Strook said.
The photos of the police from Amona can be viewed at the following links:
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Deputy Police Commander of Judea and Samaria Brig.-Gen. Meir Boukobza awoke during the night Tuesday to find his private car completely burned. Boukobza had been the senior officer on the ground in Amona, overseeing the violent destruction of nine homes in the community two weeks ago.
Another vehicle next to Bukobza's car was also burned. Neither of the vehicles bore red police license plates, and both were parked in front of the officer's home in the town of Shoham, near Ben Gurion Airport. Advance surveillance of the home by the vandals is therefore indicated. Boukabza's home address is not listed in the phone book and his home has been under constant police surveillance since the expulsion, for fear of reprisals by activists or relatives of those brutalized or sexually abused at the clashes.
A special Central District police investigatory unit has been formed to locate those responsible.
Though there is no evidence linking the vandalism with the violence in Amona, police told the media they suspect it was the work of "right-wing activists," but do not rule out criminal motives.
The anti-settlement Peace Now group immediately issued a statement blaming the attack on "wild incitement by settler leaders and right-wing Knesset members." MK Avshalom Vilan (Meretz-Yahad) blamed the attack on MK Effie Eitam, who suffered a head injury at Amona.
MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union), whose arm was broken in Amona, said Tuesday that the Division for the Investigation of Police Officers (Machash) cannot be relied upon to examine the events of Amona fairly. "Now it is finally clear that our claims that Machash whitewashes the investigations of officers are correct," MK Eldad said. "The advancement of Machash investigators depends upon their commanding officers in the police – the very ones they are supposed to be investigating. There is no chance that a Machash investigation will deal fairly against those who carried out criminal acts in Amona. Therein lies the necessity for the establishment of an external commission of inquiry."
Hundreds of educators from the national-religious education system protested Tuesday outside the national police headquarters in Jerusalem. The protestors - rabbis and teachers from around the country - stood for more than an hour in heavy rain to express their demand for justice in the case of both those who used excessive force and those who issued orders to employ excessive force.
Among the protesters were Rabbi Chaim Druckman, head of the B'nei Akiva yeshiva network, as well as centrist rabbis affiliated with the Tzohar rabbinical outreach organization.
The Association for Human Rights in Judea and Samaria uploaded photographs of 150 police and Yassam brigade members who took part in the violence at Amona Tuesday. Each picture is numbered in order to enable those who were injured to identify their attackers. "Since most of the police in Amona took the illegal measure of removing their name tags, this album is necessary in order to properly identify them," chairperson Orit Strook said.
The photos of the police from Amona can be viewed at the following links:
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