The secretariat of the Yitzhar locality today (Wednesday) wrote a letter to the acting commissioner, Superintendent Kobi Shabtai, demanding that the police policy be stopped in recent weeks from entering the Yitzhar locality. This is at a time when there is a regular presence of border police in the ‘Komi Uri’ neighborhood, which is located in the area of the settlement throughout the day.
In a letter sent to Shabtai, the residents lamented: “In recent weeks we have asked the Israel Police several times to carry out civilian policing operations in Yitzhar. Unfortunately, we have been told several times that the current police policy is not to enter Yitzhar. Because the police are “afraid” to enter the settlement.
In Yitzhar, they say that the police’s claims are unfounded: “Law-abiding citizens live in the Yitzhar settlement and the fear of entering the settlement does not correspond to the reality on the ground.”
In addition, Yitzhar attacks the selective enforcement of the police against the residents of the Komi Uri neighborhood, as stated when there are no civilian policing operations in the locality itself: To a closed military area, we will not be able to come to terms with a situation in which the Israel Police does not carry out civilian and necessary policing operations in Yitzhar and thus may encourage illegal activity in the community, and on the other hand continues to act with all its might in the Komi Uri neighborhood.
We call on you to instruct the relevant authorities to turn the creators and refer the Israeli police to the civilian missions we need in the community and to stop enforcing the order in the Komi Uri neighborhood. “
