{"id":801551,"date":"2026-05-16T22:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801551\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:39:13","slug":"idf-reservist-arrested-dismissed-from-duty-following-west-bank-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801551\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF reservist arrested, dismissed from duty following West Bank violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five Israelis, including one active duty IDF reservist<\/a>, were arrested on Friday night after they allegedly damaged and vandalized Palestinians’ vehicles in the West Bank, police announced on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a result, the reservist’s weapon was confiscated, and he was dismissed from reserve duty, according to Ynet.<\/p>\n

The incident occured on Friday afternoon near the Palestinian<\/a> village of Shukba, according to police, and led to an outbreak of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.<\/p>\n

The IDF initially responded to the incident, according to Ynet, and called in the Border Police when they were unable to de-escalate the incident alone.<\/p>\n

Later in the evening, the reservist and five others were arrested for suspected involvement in the incident and taken to the Modi’in Illit police station for questioning.<\/p>\n

“The Israel Police and the IDF condemn violence of any kind,” the police statement added. “We will act resolutely to arrest the rioters, investigate, and bring them to justice.”<\/p>\n

Also on Friday, police opened an investigation in response to a video circulating online of a person brutally beating an animal in the Palestinian village of Attara in the West Bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The suspect is not the animal’s owner, who was summoned to the police station to file a complaint and provide additional information and evidence to aid in the investigation.<\/p>\n

“Actions are being taken using all the tools available to the police<\/a> to reveal the suspect’s identity and complete the investigation,” police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five Israelis, including one active duty IDF reservist, were arrested on Friday night after they allegedly damaged and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":801552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4784,53729,99,40554,50,17262,47142],"class_list":{"0":"post-801551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-idf","9":"tag-idf-reserves","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israel-police","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-west-bank","14":"tag-west-bank-violence"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116586661054764513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}