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IDF suspends settlement security coordinator filmed aiding attack on Palestinians
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The Israel Defense Forces says it has suspended a settlement security coordinator who was seen on Friday aiding settlers attacking Palestinian olive harvesters.
A video, taken by the Yesh Din rights group, showed the security officer watching as masked youths hurl stones on a hill between Burin and the Israeli settlement of Har Bracha.
The footage shows the officer holding a tear gas grenade given to him by a settler and pointing toward the Palestinians, before the settler hurls another tear gas grenade at them, and then returns to take back the projectile he handed him.
“This act is a deviation from the behavior expected from qualified Israeli security personnel,” the IDF says in a statement.
The coordinator for the Har Bracha settlement has been suspended pending a review by the chief of the IDF’s Samaria regional brigade, Col. Shimon Siso.
He has also been questioned by police over the incident.
חיילים ומתנחלים תוקפים יחד באדמות בורין. בתיעוד של תחקירן יש דין רואים חייל מושיט רימון גז למתנחל ומראה לו לאן להשליך אותו. בטוחה שהנהלים יחודדו @Yesh_Din pic.twitter.com/8qgY9UwHZJ
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