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Text testimonies It’s to show that we aren’t going to let this pass quietly
catalog number: 678990
Unit: Nachal Special Forces
Area: Nablus area
period: 2014
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It’s to show that we aren’t going to let this pass quietly
Unit: Nachal Special Forces
Area: Nablus area
period: 2014

There are lots of arrests that are about displaying military presence, or arrests where Shin Bet Security Service people go in and scare the guys a little. A little kid who threw stones yesterday – now you go to his house, knock on the door at 2 AM, scare him and his parents. Usually these are little kids so you’ve got no way to arrest them – everyone knows that no one will arrest him – but [it’s to show that] we aren’t going to let this pass quietly. Often you take them jnto your car, drive with them… It’s a sort of vicious circle that perpetuates itself. This happened a lot in the Nablus area. Every day, mornings and evenings, we’d do route reinforcements, which were usually on central routes. That’s four hours that we’re there, exploiting the fact that there are Arabs outside and going around to ‘make our presence felt,’ a demonstration of presence inside the villages. Just like that – nobody says he’s searching for anything specific.

Who defines it to you as a demonstration of presence? A deputy company commander, or a company commander, who are in the sector at the time. It’s something everyone knows is done. Usually in the afternoon, 5 PM or 6 PM, something like that, you go in, do a round, usually with trackers, you catch a bunch: “Show us your IDs,” question them for a bit. If there’re no problems, you make a round and leave. One time we entered [the village of] Madma and we passed by some school. The policy always was, if we get stones thrown at us, straight away get off and chase them down, catch whoever was throwing. And of course, we drove by the school and got stones thrown at us. So the command squad, the patrol, we got out and started running in their direction. Sometimes you catch one or two, sometimes not even that. [That time,] the deputy company commander threw a stun grenade into the playing field where they were. Then another stun grenade, and that’s it. The tracker ran and caught one kid, put him into the [Jeep], we didn’t know how old he was but he was a young teen. Thirteen, 14, something like that. [The tracker] scared him a bit, talked with him. We released him a few kilometers away, with him far away from his pals. And that was it, we continued our round – this is very routine.

Every how often would you do this during that period in Nablus? Route reinforcements we’d do every day, and entering villages- that, I think was once every few days, that we personally did – I remember that others did it even on an everyday basis.