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Law Enforcement Upon Israeli Civilians In OT Project
About the project
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Ahead of the olive harvest 2007: Yesh Din's demands from the security forces
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October 2007 |
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Ahead of the 2007 olive harvest season, Yesh Din published a brief position paper based on the findings of the organization's monitoring of the law enforcement agencies' handling of violence by Israeli civilians against Palestinian harvesters the previous year.
The monitoring revealed a series of failures on this matter. For example, in all of the incidents documented by Yesh Din in which Israeli civilians used violence against Palestinian harvesters, IDF soldiers stood by and did not interfere to stop the assault or arrest the assailants. That conduct is part of a larger pattern of lax enforcement, including failure to carry out arrests and searches in 'real time' and failure to conclude criminal investigations after the event: not even one indictment was filed as a result of the investigations opened following attacks by Israeli civilians on harvesters in the 2006 harvest season.
The document includes demands and recommendations on a number of issues under the responsibility of the IDF OC Central Command and the SJ District Police.
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A Semblance of Law: Law Enforcement upon Israeli Civilians in the West Bank
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June 2006 |
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Violence by Israeli civilians against Palestinian civilians and their property has been a daily occurrence for many years in the Occupied Territories. The report A Semblance of Law: Law Enforcement upon Israeli Civilians in the West Bank reveals the chronology that leads to the lack of effective law-enforcement upon Israeli civilians in the West Bank who commit crimes against Palestinians.
The report documents serious failures at all stages of the law-enforcement process: at the time of committing the offense ' a grave disregard by IDF soldiers present at the site; at this stage of complaining ' placing physical and bureaucratic obstacles before Palestinians who wish to file complaints; and above all, at the investigation stage: defects in the level of investigation, failure to perform obvious investigative actions and sometimes avoidance of even a semblance of investigation.
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