Judges of Israel, you were the warriors, you are our defenders.
Today (Monday) the bereaved families are looking up to you and asking - do not let legal terrorism raise its head and the lawyers in the black robes confuse you.
It is not a trial for justice they are seeking, but a cynical exploitation of our democratic systems, even at the cost of opening the wounds and opening the grave, as in the case that will be discussed before you today.
I address you personally, Supreme Court President Ms. Esther Hayut, with the intention of producing a sincere and open dialogue. This morning we are witnessing a new, legal terrorism that may receive the qualification of the High Court of Justice in Israel. The new form of terrorism will wear a cloak, pleadings and a petition whose whole purpose is to look like a trial, but it is not. This morning, two lawyers who receive funding directly from the Palestinian Authority and the Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs will claim the opening of the tomb of the late IDF Amit Ben Yigal, who was killed in May 2020, while a force of Golani fighters engaged in operational activities in Judea and Samaria. A concrete brick at the soldiers, which hit Amit directly in the head, causing him a severe head injury and resulting in his death.
The terrorist, Nazmi Abu Bakr, was arrested the same day and later charged with intentional manslaughter (equivalent to the murder offense in Judea and Samaria) and obstruction of justice. A line of defense but a line of defiance, and now they want to open Amit's grave and take out the helmet with which he was buried to send it for examination by an external expert.
Many witnesses tell of the half-white injury to the deceased's head, medical experts performed tests and determined that the cause of death was a blunt object hit high in the head, and of course the body of the late Amit and the helmet were examined and documented in photos. , In accordance with Jewish law.
Not the legal conviction before the eyes of the terrorist's lawyers, but a probing of wounds.
In the psyche of the family.
In our minds.
Stretch to the limit the tense and exposed nerves of the bereaved family, in an attempt to exhaust.
They initially filed an application with the Military Court in Samaria, from where they appealed to the Military Court of Appeals, and after their application was rejected in the highest court in Judea and Samaria, they petitioned the High Court.
As mentioned, today the Supreme Court judges will be required to hear the lawyers, they will hear the cry of the father Baruch who has already once opened his son's grave (after a mentally ill woman desecrated his grave), they will hear the cry of bereaved parents and not give a dangerous precedent to open The IDF only for the sake of trying to be an enlightened democracy.
The price of any other decision is surrender to terrorism and giving a new impetus to legal terrorism.