Did you have any issue with the settlers [in Hebron]? Yes, on all of Tarpat route [Tel Rumeida settlement]. All the time, on that route, you have the settlers with the Arab population, and many times it leads to brawls. The Arabs come up or come down [the route], say, and then younger settlers see them and tease them, sometimes they throw a stone at them, and fights start. Every time it's something else. But from what I’ve seen, ninety percent come from the Hebron settlers' side.

As a soldier, how do you operate the situation? [I] come, pull them apart, and of course you have more empathy for the settlers so you’re pulling the other side with more force, you throw them [out of there]. There were times when you see settlers doing [things] on purpose in order to agitate, so that a soldier would come and do something to them (the Palestinians): “He started.” So you throw them out of there and tell them: “Get out of here.”

The settlers? Yes.

And the Palestinians, do you do something with them or do you send them on their way? I send them.

Did they define what your authority towards the settlers is? No.

Are you allowed to arrest them? Of course not. It's forbidden.

Why? Because they’re, like, the people who live there.

So do the Palestinians. Yes, but they [the settlers] are people like us. They’re… you know… We were also told in a briefing that, like, on that route – there are fights and stuff so we should simply distance the settlers. It was more in order to protect them, the settlers.