Israeli Inaction Enables Settler Violence Against Palestinians

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The failure of Israeli authorities in the struggle against Jewish terrorism makes them its enablers. Yesh Din demands a special IDF deployment in order to protect Palestinians.

By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz

Yesh Din on Wednesday published its annual data sheet about law enforcement on Israeli civilians in the West Bank, and as usual, the data is not encouraging. You can see the full data sheet here.

To make a long story short, between 2005 and 2013, the SHAI (Judea and Samaria/West Bank) District Police managed to obtain indictments only in 8.5 percent of the cases Yesh Din monitors, while showing impressive incompetence by closing 84 percent of the cases due to investigative failure. This is not new: the data repeats itself every year. There is only one category in which the SHAI police outshone itself in the last year: the losing of cases. Since 2005, the SHAI cops managed to physically lose eight of the files; five of them were lost last year.

Yesh Din’s cases, it should be noted, represent just a small part of the offenses carried out by Israelis in the West Bank. The organization is not informed of all the incidents and even when it is, can’t handle all of them. The basic assumption should be that a case which is not actively followed by an Israeli attorney will suffer from negligence by the police, at the very least. The victim may not even be informed of the decision in the case.

The clear conclusion, then, is that the law enforcement agencies of Israel do not deter the ideological felons in the West Bank at all. The latter have already devised the ideology of “price tag”: it says that any action the government takes, or is forced to take, against the settlements and illegal outposts will be followed by violence against Palestinians, carried out by settlers and their supporters. The goal is to make it clear to the government that if it bothers the settlers, they – or their supporters – will burst the bubble of false quiet in the West Bank.

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[HR]Fact Sheet: Israeli Police Fail To Prosecute Violence Against Palestinians

Yesh Din publishes research and tracking of police investigations into allegations of violence against Palestinians perpetrated by Israeli citizens.

The updated figures show that between 2005 and 2013 just 8.5 percent of investigation files ended in the indictment of Israelis suspected of harming Palestinians and their property. In the vast majority of cases, the investigators failed to locate the offenders or to collect sufficient evidence for prosecution.

The new figures are virtually identical to those reported in the past. Accordingly, the past year has not brought any improvement in the ability of the police to investigate offenses by Israeli civilians against Palestinians and their property.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/155693503/DataSheet-Law-Enforcement-of-Israeli-Citizens-in-the-West-Bank

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