Unpunished and unseen settler attacks

World Bulletin / News Desk 

An Israeli NGO said Monday that 94 percent of Israel’s investigations into attacks on Palestinians by extremist Jewish settlers ended “without any indictments,” going on to lament Israeli police “indifference” regarding such assaults.

“Despite their legal obligations, the reality is that Israeli security forces in the West Bank frequently participate – or stand idly by – while violence against Palestinians is being committed,” Yesh Din, an Israeli NGO that tracks and documents Jewish settler assaults on Palestinians, said in a statement.

“Behind this indifference is a pervasive culture of impunity maintained by the various Israeli authorities operating in the West Bank,” the NGO said.

Yesh Din contends these assaults are not “isolated incidents,” going on to assert that “this brand of violence is part of a sophisticated, wider strategy designed to assert territorial domination over West Bank Palestinians”.

Research conducted by the NGO found that nearly 94 percent of the Israeli army’s criminal investigations of soldiers suspected of committing violent acts against Palestinians and their property end “without any indictments”.

“In the rare cases that indictments are served, conviction leads to very light sentencing,” Yesh Din noted.

Israeli police officials could not be reached for immediate comment on the NGO’s assertions.

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