Jerusalem – NGO B’Tselem, who last week obtained a video of an IDF soldier shooting a subdued Palestinian in Hebron from one of its volunteers, is now asking for protection against the volunteer who documented the shooting.
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B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad wrote a letter on Wednesday to the OC Central Command Roni Numa and Chief of Police Roni Alsheich informing them of death threats made against Imad Abu Shamsiyeh, the B’Tselem volunteer who filmed the incident.
El-Ad requested assurance from the military and police commanders that they are aware of the threats made against Abu Shamsiyeh and his family. He emphasized that it is the duty of the police and the central command to ensure that everything in their power is done to protect the family from further violence, including issuing clear, adequate directives to soldiers and police officers stationed in Hebron.
El-Ad stressed that threats made against Abu Shamsiyeh were not hypothetical, because he is a well known figure in his neighborhood, Tel Rumeida, and in recent years has fallen victim to several attacks by settlers living there.
Since the footage has been released, Abu Shamsiyeh and his family have received death threats and hate-filled messages on Facebook.
Additionally, stones have been thrown at their home by Jewish settlers living in Hebron.
The soldier involved in the incident has been the subject of intense scrutiny, and is currently on trial.
On Thursday, IDF Prosecutor Lt. Col. Edoram Rigler said that they were reducing the expected charge from murder to manslaughter.
At the same time, Rigler told IDF Lt. Col. Judge Ronen Shor at the hearing in Kastina near Ashdod that they felt highly confident they would get a conviction for manslaughter, which still carries heavy jail time.
Let this liberal self-hating Jew learn the hard way that there are repercussions to his bleeding-heart actions!
They want military protection from the group they’re accusing of murder?
And who’s going to make sure his potection guards behave???
did he also film as the terrorist or terrorists stab innocent people and soldiers
This is the epitome of Chutzpah.
He released a doctored video and wants military protection!!
Let the little Palestinian kids that Hamas trains protect him, but only if he is in Gaza or the Israeli land that was STOLEN from Israel.