Military to issue restraining order against settler suspect in killing of Palestinian

The Defense Ministry informs Elisha Yered, one of two Israeli suspects held over the fatal shooting of a Palestinian, that it intends to issue a restraining order against him.

Settler activists publish a copy of the order, which will be in force for six months but does not yet state where Yered will be barred from.

Yered was released to house arrest last after a court found police do not have enough evidence to keep him in custody.

In a statement, Yered condemned the order as part of a “campaign of revenge.”

“The vindictiveness of the Jewish Department of the Shin Bet and the IDF head of the Central Command, following the collapse of the case they invented and inflated, breaks new records,” Yered says.

“After being severely criticized in all the courts that ruled that there was no truth in the accusations against me, the Central Command and the Shin Bet decided to start a campaign of revenge,” he says.

Yered is suspected, along with Yehiel Indore, of killing 19-year-old Qusai Jamal Matan during a clash between Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the northern West Bank, just outside the town of Burqa, last month.

Indore is believed to be the person who shot Matan dead. Yered is suspected of involvement in the shooting and obstructing the investigation into the incident by taking the pistol home with him.