Remember Those Fanatic Extremists at Havat Gilad?

The fanatic extremists that caused gthe police to use near-lethal force and gave all the residentrs of Yesha a bad name?

You remember them, yes?

Well, the truth is out and the Knesset's Subcommittee for Judea and Samaria, a branch of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, managed to peel away some falsehoods and lies:

Subcommittee head MK Ze'ev Elkin expressed annoyance Sunday over police backtracking during the investigation. “It's strange that the very same deputy-commander of the Judea and Samaria region who, in the previous meeting, could not answer the committee's questions about the eviction at the farm, submitted the conclusions of a police investigation into the matter to the Police Chief just a few hours later,” he said.

Police have admitted that the number of plastic bullets fired during the incident was, in fact, 15 or so as residents had claimed, and not fewer, as officers had argued.

Commander Haggai Dotan defended the use of plastic bullets in one hearing. “It is better that police use plastic bullets than batons, which are likely to cause greater injury,” he argued.

Danny Dayan, head of the Yesha (Judea and Samaria) Council, disagreed. Plastic bullets can be so dangerous that some foreign police departments have stopped using them altogether, he said.

...Another police claim later proven false was that ski masks had been used during the operation simply due to the cold, and not as a matter of planning. In fact, the committee found, officers at the scene had been ordered in advance to wear the masks.

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