Nahal Haredi Soldiers Caught On Video Beating Unarmed Restrained Palestinian Man

Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com



Ha’aretz reported today that IDF soldiers from the heavily right-wing Zionist Orthodox/haredi/ex-haredi Netzah Yehuda Brigade – better known as Nahal Haredi – were caught on video beating a Palestinian man Friday in the Jalazone refugee camp after he was restrained by them. Worse, the entire confrontation with the man appears to have been instigated by the soldiers.



Palestinians were protesting there and clashes between them and IDF soldiers and police, which including stone-throwing by Palestinians began.



A soldier was caught on video cursing a Palestinian man. The soldier screams curses at the Palestinian and taunts him. Say one more word, the soldier screams, and “I will f*@k your mother.”



The soldier tries to hit the Palestinian. Seconds later, another soldier tries to hit the man with his rifle.



In all, five soldiers attack the Palestinian man and restrain him. During that brief struggle (in which the Palestinian does little to resist), a soldier hits the Palestinian with his rifle, knocking him to the stoney ground and causing his head to bleed.



Another soldier punches the Palestinian in the face, and yet another knees kicks him in the head – even though the Palestinian is not resisting and is already restrained.



Another soldier then steps on the Palestinian’s head, pushing his face further into the stoney ground., and his face can be seen to be bleeding.



The first soldier reported the arrest, but did not tell the IDF that a Palestinian news agency had a video of it, and when the video surfaced it apparently did not match the claims made by the first soldier (who complained that the Palestinian man had tried to touch his gun but apparently left out what took place before and after that) or the IDF unit.



"Those [soldiers] involved in the incident were summoned to meet with the brigade commander [Sunday] morning for a clarification and debriefing of the event; if need be, disciplinary action will be taken against them. From a preliminary probe it seems their behavior does not befit that expected of an IDF soldier,” the IDF Spokesman’s Office reportedly said in an official statement.