Demonstrators in Amona on Wednesday are relaying eyewitness accounts of police brutality and rights violations, suggesting that most of police illegal violence erupted after the demonstrators had been loaded onto buses and the means to document the incidents have been taken from civilians.
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Staff members of the Honenu legal aid society have reported that “when the police remove people from the houses they exercise self-control, but in places where there are no cameras, the violence starts. We are reporting on severe violence inside the buses, after all of the cameras and cellular devices have been taken from the youths. We call on everyone who has been injured to contact us in order to file complaints and claims against violent policemen.”
Honenu director Shmuel (Zangi) Meidad said in a statement, “There is no ‘sensitivity and determination,’ only hypocrisy, violence and cruelty. Children, boys and girls, and youths were removed from Amona and loaded onto buses. Their cell phones were taken from them and they did not have the means to document the police action. And there they were brutally beaten. The buses took them to various locations throughout the country and let them off at night, in the dark and cold, alone, battered and crying.”
Honenu reported assisting more than 40 detainees. At the Ma’aleh Adumim Police Station Honenu Attorneys Nati Rom and Azriel Friedenberg assisted detainees who were brought in from the Amona area. The detainees were interrogated on suspicion of violating an order issued by the GOC of the Central Command. Some were released after an interrogation and were ordered to keep away from Amona for five days.
