*** ***’s daughter got married. The wedding was held in the heart of the Jewish settlement.

Where? The wholesale market. Right there’s that huge square? Between the camels’ area and the market, there’s a kind of huge asphalt paving, so they covered that whole section with one huge tarpaulin.

This was around Hanukkah? Yes. We put snipers on the roofs.

Those were your orders? The battalion commander evaluated it. He sees: There’s this wedding with 700 guests, no choice but to protect them. He really has no other choice. So he decided his weapon is rooftop snipers. I actually think he’s right, because investing more is just more soldiers. So that night, sometimes the people who come are a bit beyond, a bit… I mean, the Hebron settlers are extreme, but for some reason, not towards the army. They stretch their limits with the army because they’re with them on a daily basis. So all sorts of settlers came from other places, cursed my company commander, really swore at him, and then at the Gross checkpoint commander, at gate 4-5.

Why? Because it exists, why else? Because the guy was a bit drunk, so you release some curses at the soldier standing guard at 4-5. The 4-5 guard gets on the radio: What can I do with him? Nothing. Great.

You’re sitting there, there’s an evaluation? Yes, with the brigade commander and his deputy. Guys were complaining: “What can we do?” We were told to stop them. “What do you mean by stopping?” we asked. To detain them. They say: “Like you do with Palestinians.” Sure. Like a soldier putting plastic handcuffs on a settler would live to see the next day… So nothing doing, at the end of the day, we couldn’t do a thing about them.

What do you tell the soldiers at the briefing? You put soldiers on Gross post, they see a settler throwing stones, what do they do? Tell the kid to stop it. That’s it.

Tell him? Talk to him? Yes.

That’s what you tell him? Yes.