Footage shows police disguised as religious settlers in order to nab minor

Footage shot by residents of the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar shows police officers dressed up as religious settlers dragging a 15-year-old boy into a vehicle.

The minor was interrogated on suspicion of “obstructing police officers,” and was released after hours of questioning, but not before giving an administrative order banning him from the West Bank, the Honenu legal aid organization says.

The right-wing NGO says officers were dressed up wearing religious garb, including tzitzit and head coverings.

Pictures from the scene show the car used by police sporting a bumper sticker that reads “No Arabs. No terror attacks,” in an effort by cops to ostensibly blend in with the ultra-nationalist residents of Yitzhar,

Honenu says that one of the cops involved in the “brutal” operation is currently under investigation for assaulting a minor in an earlier West Bank arrest.

Police "dress up as settlers" in order to carry out an arrest of a minor in Yitzhar. The ruse included a car with the classic "No Arabs, No terror attacks" bumper sticker pic.twitter.com/8SOyTY9fgL

— Jacob Magid (@JacobMagid) April 22, 2018