Israeli MP smashes West Bank memorial under army escort
• Tel Aviv begins evicting UN training centre for Palestinians • West Bank settlers attack journalists, activists near Bethlehem RAMALLAH: A far-right Israeli lawmaker took a sledgehammer to a Palestinian memorial in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday while under military escort. Footage circulating online showed Zvi Sukkot, who is also a settler and activist, smashing a monument commemorating…
Israeli lawmaker Zvi Sukkot smashed a memorial commemorating Palestinian "martyrs" in the West Bank village of Madama while under military escort on Tuesday. Footage showed Sukkot, a far-right settler and activist, using a sledgehammer to break the monument, with soldiers standing nearby. Sukkot claimed he acted after demanding the military remove such monuments, but the IDF said the participants had acted without authorization.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that the military is the sovereign authority in Judea and Samaria and warned against taking the law into one's own hands. Meanwhile, Israeli forces began evicting a UN-run vocational training center in east Jerusalem, citing threats to the facility. Separately, Israeli settlers attacked journalists covering tension with Palestinians, injuring at least five people.
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