Wife of Yitzhar resident who was arrested provides a chilling description of the police brutality during the arrest.
Irit Albert, wife of Yitzhar resident Boaz Albert who was arrested for ignoring a restraining orderdistancing him from Judea and Samaria, described her husband’s arrest in an interview with Arutz Sheva on Thursday evening.
Albert provided a chilling description of the arrest, saying that the officers repeatedly used a taser gun on her husband, even as he yelled out in pain.
“We knew that Boaz would be arrested eventually and were prepared for this, but I have no words to describe the brutality of the police during the arrest,” she said.
As the officers broke into the Alberts’ home, she said, “Boaz ran to one of the rooms and lay down on the floor. I could hear his cries of pain as he was repeatedly shocked by the police since he refused to leave the house on his own.”
Irit Albert said that even when the officers forcefully removed Boaz force from his home, “they continued, as they dragged him towards a police car that waited in a nearby Arab village, to shock him again and again. It was dark but occasionally we could hear another scream and another scream and police yelling, ‘If you do not get up we will electrify you again.’”
Albert, 40, a father of six, said that he was being expelled because of pure vindictiveness, after he had spoken out in public and written articles against the IDF’s policies vis-a-vis the resurgent Arab terrorism.
Irit told Arutz Sheva earlier this week that the couple has no idea why the order was issued.
“Other than the words ‘resolute security considerations,’ the order contains no explanation,” she said. “It is all classified material, for security reasons. No one knows. The judge doesn’t know, the prosecutor doesn’t know, it’s all classified. No resident in the country can be distanced without providing a reason, only we residents of Judea and Samaria.”
The Women in Green grassroots Zionist organization strongly condemned Albert’s arrest, which it described as “scandalous”.
“Women in Green strongly condemn the scandalous arrest of Boaz Albert, a resident of Yitzhar, a father of six, who was arrested last night in a violent military operation in which security forces shot him and his brother with iron arrows from a taser gun and wounded him,” the organization said in a statement. “All this because of Albert’s ‘crime’ of refusing to obey to the immoral and anti-democratic edict of expulsion that was given out to him. These expulsion orders are used solely against Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria and not against Arab stone-throwers nor against the European anarchists that attack soldiers.
“We call upon the Land of Israel Knesset members to intervene immediately for the release of Boaz and to enable him, after medical treatment, to go back to his family at his home in Yitzhar.”
“From the security forces we expect to stop harassing Jews and start to address what is expected of them: to protect the citizens of Israel against Arab terrorists, among them the terrorist murderers who, to our horror and shame, were released just two days ago,” said Women in Green.
The Shomron Residents’ Committee, commenting on Albert’s arrest, expressed on Thursday its full support for Albert.
“Issuing administrative orders against residents of Judea and Samaria is crossing a red line,” said the head of the committee, Benny Katzover. “The use of administrative restraining orders against Israeli citizens is despicable and we support Boaz over his resistance and appreciate his courage over his readiness to pay a heavy price in this war.”
MK Orit Struk (Bayit Yehudi) called on the police to release Albert.
“I call to release Boaz Albert whose only crime was his refusal to obey an undemocratic and immoral exile order,” she said. “The order’s sole purpose was to silence. Even the head of a crime family does not receive such an order. The only people who receive this kind of a warrant are settlers, whom law enforcement officers consider second class citizens.”
<a href="#been a horse or wild killer bee that couldn’t be broke.
Who says, Not you posiably a handsome Mosad agent if he has a rope and spurs!!!!!!
honeybee Said:
I can multitask.
Never been a horse or wild killer bee that couldn’t be broke.
yamit82 Said:
Are you the handsome Mossad agent? http://youtu.be/hvakEVwbbtw
Iam a wild killer bee,can’t be kept!!!!!!!
honeybee Said:
Having been stung so often I suppose I have developed an immunity to the sting effects. Like Bee Keepers. 😉
yamit82 Said:
That’s why you get yourself stung overandoverandoverandover aoverandover
honeybee Said:
I have always had a weakness for honey.
@ yamit82:
Nobody will touch Alon he is a protected species in Israel, but his own family isn’t. He who understands understands!
Here is the real story behind the arrest and brutal display by the police against Boaz Albert.
Op-Ed: IDF Gen. Nitzan Alon, What Happened to Due Process?
There is a sneaking suspicion that there is a personal vendetta at play in the shocking arrest of Boaz Albert.
The media in Israel on August 18 devoted a day of news stories to the abuse of a “stun gun”, something like an electric cattle prod and known as a taser gun, in the arrest of Boaz Albert on Thursday night,August 15.
The media missed the real story:
An Israeli citizen, Boaz Albert, a resident of Yitzhar in Northern Samaria, wrote articles which angered the IDF Central Region Commander, Gen. Nitzan Alon.
Alon used arbitrary military power at his disposal to order Boaz to leave his wife and children for the next six months.
The response of Boaz Albert was to say that if he had done something illegal or said something illegal, then please serve him with an indictment, and that he would show up in a court of law to defend himself.
Instead, General Nitzan Alon dispatched a crack anti-terror squad to break into Alpert’s home
Alon’s tough guys threw Alpert to the ground and detained him by shooting a stun gun at point blank range at Albert, in the presence of his children.
Damage to Albert’s children will be felt for many years.
The issue at hand is the arbitrary military power in the hands of General Nitzan Alon, which Alon can use against any resident, Jew or Arab, who lives under Alon’s jurisdiction in Judea and Samaria.
Until military law in Judea and Samaria replaced by civilian law, Israeli officials like General Nitzan Alon can use the power at their disposal to violate the civil liberties of anyone they choose to, while ignoring due process that every human being should benefit from.
Today, every civil liberties and human rights group should demand the removal of Nitzan Alon from his position, in the name of free speech and due process.
yamit82 Said:
HONEY TRAP, SUGAR
@ honeybee:
Oh…Bamboozled by a broad??? 😛
yamit82 Said:
I have a large poster by Anna Ticho, Tex saw it at the flea market,brought for 3 dollars, had it re-framed,said it looked like West Texas. I also have a small painting by B.Afroyim of two Hasidic Boys.
yamit82 Said:
I could be pullin your leg, I like to watch the Kraken come out the cave. Its called ho -rah. Tex says you dodged a bullet not escorting me to an Art Museum. Its like taking John Wayne to a barroom, you know a brawl will break out.
@ honeybee:
@ honeybee:
I am not debating that your idea of art isn’t art. What I am saying is that illustrators like Rockwell were every bit an artist and their works no less art than any example you can produce as fine or true art.
I have both hanging on my walls with equal deference.
@ honeybee:
I have several original Ticho works and prints
Also some of Yossi Stern and Moshe Gut works
@ honeybee:
Inovation: http://youtu.be/XNGxhC6kRFk
http://youtu.be/ATpTFEBAoaA
@ yamit82:
1 no
2 no
3 no
4 no
yamit82 Said:
But darlin, those artish had style and inovation for example “Night Watch” and “David”