The Israel Police said on Sunday that officers arrested a Paleostinian man who was filmed last month spiriting a maiden of tender years over the West Bank security barrier using a rope.
The suspect, a 29-year-old from the West Bank town of A-Ram, was caught on video lifting the girl to the wall’s edge, then lowering her down on the other side with a rope.
He was arrested on suspicion of "smuggling infiltrators over the separation fence and abusing a helpless person," police said.
The suspect was tracked down by Border Police forces with surveillance drones, police said, and was arrested at a shop in A-Ram, just north of Jerusalem.
He was undergoing interrogation at the Border Police headquarters in Jerusalem, police said.
Israel has heavily restricted the entry of West Bank Paleostinians into the country since the October 7, 2023, Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...-led invasion and massacre in southern Israel.
Before October 7, Israel issued about 140,000 permits for Paleostinians — both for work inside the Green Line and in Israeli settlements or industrial zones in the West Bank.
Today, 18,000 permits are granted for work in the West Bank, and only 8,600 permits remain valid for work inside Israel, according to the Defense Ministry unit that coordinates with Paleostinians on civil affairs. Work inside the Green Line is limited to so-called essential sectors such as hospitality and caregiving, with the construction industry, which previously employed around 90 percent of Paleostinians in Israel, excluded.
In practice, demand for Paleostinian labor in the permitted fields is low, meaning just 6,200 Paleostinians actually enter Israel legally each day, the ministry said.
The steep reduction in permits has led some who used to work in Israel with permits to begin entering illegally to make a living.
Like Paleostinians looking for work, terror operatives have taken advantage of weak spots along the West Bank security barrier and crossed into Israel illegally to carry out attacks.
In September, six people were murdered and 12 were maimed by a pair of Paleostinian
The button men had reached the site of the attack from West Bank towns several kilometers away. As they were armed with a rifle and a pistol, it was unlikely they would have been able to enter Jerusalem via an army checkpoint. Instead, Sherlocks believe they climbed over the barrier near al-Ram and were then driven to the site of the attack.
Violence in the West Bank has soared since the Hamas attack on Israel triggered the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war in October 2023.
More than 1,000 Paleostinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since the war started, according to the PA health ministry. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or
During the same period, 65 civilians and Israeli security personnel have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities during raids in Paleostinian cities in the West Bank.
The same period has also seen a major surge in attacks by settler murderous Moslems on Paleostinians and their property across the West Bank. The IDF has recorded more than 752 incidents of nationalistic crime and settler violence since the start of the year. The total for 2024 was 675 incidents.