The police will compensate 17 young people who detained during the riots in Ramla with "Shomer Hachomot" NIS 85,000

According to the compromise agreement reached, the police will pay NIS 5,000 to each of the young people she detained, claiming "due to the fear that they will harm Arab residents or harm themselves in clashes."

The young people, including minors, said on the other hand that they had come to the place to "encourage the spirit of the Jewish residents. We were walking on the street, and suddenly they jumped on us."

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20/01/2022

Thursday, 20 January 2022, 14:25 Updated: 15:11

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The police have signed a compromise agreement, according to which they will pay NIS 85,000 in total compensation to 17 boys and young people who were illegally detained in Ramla last May. This, during the riots that broke out in the cities involved during Operation Wall Guard.

The arrangements stipulate that each of the plaintiffs will receive NIS 5,000, which includes "legal expenses as well as all the damages and expenses claimed by the plaintiffs, including mental distress." It was further stated that the amount "will be paid to the plaintiffs without admitting liability or the amount of damage".

The State Attorney's Office wrote as a background to the police's decision on the delays that during the "Guard of the Walls" period, "unrest began among some Westerners in mixed cities and at major intersections around the country, which included large-scale violence, including use of firearms, Molotov cocktails, fires in many hotspots. Stones and more. "

On May 12, 2021, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz declared Lod's municipal territory as a "central emergency event" - a declaration giving the police 48 hours of command and control with extension options in the hands of the minister and government, and preventing non-residents from entering the city.

This was the first time in Israel that a major emergency event was declared.

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Detention of civilians during Operation Guard of the Walls in Ramla (Photo: Walla !, Shani Ha'abira)

According to the prosecution, in parallel with the unusual declaration of Lod, many Jewish citizens began arriving in nearby Ramla, claiming that they intended to strengthen and support Jews living in the city.

So, "for fear that these civilians would seek to harm Arab civilians, or be harmed by the violent incidents in the city, the Ramla police station made a decision to prevent non-residents from entering the city. Under agreement to restrictive conditions. "

It was further emphasized that "the police decision was made not as part of the Defense Minister's announcement, but at the same time, in view of the cliff of times that required extensive and intensive operational activity by the police - the command staff clarified that they acted without choice in the face of dangers and threats." .

One of the young prosecutors said that the evening he was detained, he arrived with his friends in Ramla "to distribute pizzas to the Jewish residents and cheer them up during all the severe disturbances that were in the summer."

He said, after they finished the distribution and while returning to their car - "Suddenly policemen jumped on us. We just walked down the street, we did nothing. They did not explain to us why we were detained, did not agree to say anything. At the station we waited six hours for interrogation, and the interrogator herself did not know why. "We were detained. In the end we were released. I hope the police will learn from the story and that basic rights of freedom and liberty will be preserved."

Attorneys Menashe Yado and Eladi Wiesel, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Honno organization, said that "the police who chose to compensate the plaintiffs did well before the lawsuits were heard in court. The police understood that they could not defend their puzzling and scandalous actions."

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