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Member of Palestinian security forces: ‘We will trample the heads of settlers’

In the video, he said that “the time has come to face bullets with bullets, and death with death.”

A member of the Palestinian Security Forces made these remarks in an anonymous video that was posted on various Palestinian online outlets on May 18, 2021. (MEMRI)
A member of the Palestinian Security Forces made these remarks in an anonymous video that was posted on various Palestinian online outlets on May 18, 2021. (MEMRI)

A member of the Palestinian Security Forces warned Israel in a video that appeared on various Palestinian online outlets on May 18 that it would pay a “very steep price,” according to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

In the video, the member said the Palestinian Security Forces are not the guards of the “enemy’s” settlements, and that any Jewish settler discovered on the road in Judea and Samaria will be shot.

He said: “We will trample the heads of the settlers occupying our land. Allah willing, we will fly the banner of victory on the minarets of Jerusalem.”

“Therefore, the settlers are prohibited from moving on the roads of the West Bank. Whoever violates this will be met by bullets. The time has come to face bullets with bullets, and death with death,” he said.

A congressman on the House Armed Services Committee confirmed the proposal to JNS.
In a briefing with JNS, IDF Southern Command details strengthened local security squads, new reserve forces, advanced technology and training aimed at preventing another massacre.
The independent executive branch agency told JNS that the behavior is “not acceptable” and the incident is being “fully investigated.”
“It can’t just be business as usual,” Evan R. Bernstein told JNS. “We’re not done yet.”