Police have arrested four Galilean residents suspected of aiding two residents of northern Israel, according to a report that attacked an IDF soldier and stole his weapons last week. went near an Arab town in the area.
The four are suspected of helping the two main suspects hide from the secure forces during manhunt.
The two, key 25-year-old suspects from the northern Bedouin city of Ibouin were taken Monday to the Magistrates’ Court in Haifa for a hearing on the extension of their remand.
According to police, late Wednesday the two attacked the soldier from the elite Egoz Unit, while training in Shokeda Forest near the northern Israeli city of Shefa-‘Amr.
An initial investigation into the incident revealed that the accused soldier and thieves were subjected to violent harassment, when his weapon was confiscated.
Police say the two suspects were arrested at their hideout on Sunday after a “lengthy and complicated investigation,” with the ammo allegedly stolen from them.
The IDF praised the soldier’s response after the attack and how he immediately reported the incident to his commanders.
However, the head of the Egoz Unit wrote in a message to his subordinates that “a soldier who does not know how to defeat two in battle and whose weapons have been stripped from him – cannot be with Egoz. Even In a fight, I don’t take a POW unless God forbid, it’s a body. ”