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Text testimonies “They don't pass through here, my territory”
catalog number: 245115
Rank: First Sergeant
Unit: Lavi Battalion
Area: Hebron area
period: 2006
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“They don't pass through here, my territory”
Rank: First Sergeant
Unit: Lavi Battalion
Area: Hebron area
period: 2006

There was always that thing when settlers just want to– suddenly they define territory as their own. Maon farm, they were best at it there. They would suddenly declare a trail: They don't pass through here, my territory. Trails through which Palestinians pass, they go to school, I don't know why. “They don't pass through, my territory.”‬

‪Who would say that?‬ ‪Just settlers. There’s one crazy guy in Maon farm, I don't remember his name.‬

‪What do you mean they declare? To whom do they declare? ‬ ‪To us. What do you mean to whom do they declare? ‬

‪And what do you say?‬ ‪“They do pass through.” We're supposed to guard the Arabs who pass, but you know, the settlers throw stones at them, and you won’t stand like: throw at me, I'm here. You say to them, please, please don't throw. Like an idiot.

‪Even if they throw stones at you? ‬ ‪Did you hear about the incident in our battalion? One of the [soldiers] from the auxiliary company…

In escorting the kids (the IDF accompanies Palestinian children walking to school along a path next to Maon farm, following instances of violent attacks by settlers from Maon farm against the children)?‬ ‪He got angry that they were throwing stones at the kids. He told them: Stop throwing stones. He didn’t let them pass, began to push them, they showered him with stones, hit him with one here, he passed out. Got a stone here to his jaw and passed out. Then one of the soldiers immediately cocked his weapon, and fired into the air over the settlers. These two soldiers were taken to court the same day, got screwed over with 35 days in prison for having fired a bullet into the air.

‪Both soldiers? ‪No, the soldier who didn't shoot didn't. ‬

‪The soldier who shot got 35 days in jail for having fired in the air? ‪The settler also said that he threatened him with a gun. I don't know, I wasn't there.

‬‪And the soldier who was hit? ‪He was also punished, because he hit a settler. He like ‬started a fight with a settler.

‪So what did he get? I don't remember, some 28 days in detention. He was the commander.

‪And did something happen to the settlers who beat him up? ‪Did something happened? They beat up, we don't hit the settlers.

‪Did the police come? ‪What police? Do you know what needs to go down for the police to come?