MK Kasif: The policeman at the demonstration said he would kill me, I did not hit anyone

According to a Knesset member from the joint list, he attended a demonstration in which a police officer was beaten to express sympathy with the residents of Mount Hebron.

"They prevented me from entering and thus violated my immunity," he explained.

"The policeman pushed a hand in front of me - and when I move his hand - that's what you see."

He added that the police are lying systematically

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15/05/2022

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 09:28 Updated: 09:50

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In the video: The confrontation between MK Ofer Kasif and Border Police fighters (documentation on social networks according to section 27A of the Copyright Law)

MK Ofer Kasif (joint list) said today (Sunday) in an interview with FM103 that one of the policemen who stopped him during a demonstration in Mount Hebron in which he documented harming a policeman - threatened to hit him. "One of the policemen told another policeman, ' It is documented, "

Kasif explained. He explained that he had come to the demonstration to express sympathy with the residents of Mount Hebron." We were prevented from coming to the demonstration, "he repeated the incident." We were at several points where buses and passengers stopped.

"At the point where I was, I asked to enter some path there with the vehicle, the police, in violation of the law, prevented me from entering and thus violated my immunity."

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He said he insisted on continuing on his way because the path he was supposed to walk was not closed, he claimed.

"It was not in the direction they arrested us, it was in another direction. In the direction they arrested us we did not continue. As soon as they stopped, when I try to cross and they block me, and I tell them 'I have the immunity', one of the policemen says to another policeman ' "It's documented."

Kasif added that he holds documentation of the incident, however he can not disseminate it at this time.

"I do not touch the policeman, let it be clear, I want to finish - the policeman who threatens to kill me or shoot me says this to the policeman, who then sees me in the video as if hitting him. Then, when I drive with the vehicle and do not hit the policeman, the policeman you talk about gives "A blow on the vehicle, as you can see, and then also the fact that I have a documented video, he pushes my hand forward and then when I move his hand it is what you see."

Silver at the Sheikh Jarrah relief last year (Photo: Reuters, -)

"I did not touch him, I certainly had no intention of touching him," Kasif continued.

"He was not hurt, it's really not true. Then he shouts 'You will not cling to me'."

However, he said, he did not act out of self-defense.

"It's not self - defense, because I do not want to say he hit me. I'm not saying he hit me, I say he pushed my hand forward. I instinctively pushed the hand he pushed me forward - and then at this point what they showed in the media is like me. "I hit him and I attacked. It's not true. Listen friends, the police not only are acting violently, we saw it at the funeral yesterday and in a thousand other places, they are also systematically lying."

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