Judea and Samaria claims: Because of Talia Sasson's report, legal advice refuses to budget security components in outposts • "Lawyers have decided that we do not deserve basic personal security"
A legal document written 15 years ago prevents the "young settlement" in Judea and Samaria from receiving essential security elements to protect the residents.
The document, which reached "Israel Today", was written in the spirit of "The Outposts Report" by Adv. Talia Sasson (later a member of the Meretz list for the Knesset and chairman of the New Israel Foundation).
Sasson defined the outposts as "illegal", and based on the report she authored, then Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided to deny them civilian government assistance. Among other things, it stated that the outposts could provide basic security elements such as guarding soldiers and deploying a barbed wire fence Adjacent to the residents' houses. But the principle statement in the document is: "With regard to all other security components (for example, electric gate, lighting, generator, etc.), the Attorney General (prohibiting financial assistance in any way to outposts) must act."
Only recently did it become clear to the Yesha Council that despite the considerable demographic growth in these localities and the fundamental change in government policy toward outposts, legal advice still deprives them of basic security components. .
Israel Today has learned that the debate between the demands of the Ministry of Defense and the Home Front Command and the position of the legal advisers has risen to high tones in the internal discussions.
The settlement says that a military source who knows the details told them: "These are Israeli civilians living in threatened places. As long as they are not evacuated from their homes, security elements should be given to them. The lawyers are not willing to approve anything, except for current security guards at 02 rifle level. "On the women and the children. The men are simply being abandoned. Tomorrow morning you will find a slaughtered family."
In a young settlement forum, Israel Today was told: "A group of lawyers gathered 15 years ago and our decision, our families and children do not deserve minimal personal security. The decisions to regulate the outposts do not change jurists. We call on the Prime Minister to fully regulate the outposts and the Minister of Defense "Security elements. It's time. Let us live."
Yesha Council Chief of Staff Lt. Col. (Res.) Shlomo Vaknin added: "The best solution is to regulate the young localities, as has happened many times in the past."
