WATCH: Police brutality amid settler attack against Palestinians
http://972mag.com/watch-police-violence-amid-settler-attack-in-west-bank/82379/
On Saturday morning a handful of Israeli Taayush activists accompanied the Awad and Jabarin families to their farmlands, located where the illegal outpost Mitzpeh Yair now stands. Upon their arrival, Israeli soldiers were already waiting for them with a closed military zone order. The 20-30 Palestinian residents, many of whom were children, were already spread out over the area when settlers who had arrived at the scene began attacking them.
According to a Taayush activist named Maria who was there, around 10 settlers attacked the Palestinians and the Israelis. They stole her camera and smashed it to pieces. When she screamed out to the police officer, he retrieved the broken camera and handed it back to her, but did not take the assailant into custody. According to Maria and several other activists on the scene, this violent confrontation provoked by the settlers continued for about 20 minutes, without any of the army or police officers doing a thing to stop it. And in fact, as is quite evident from the footage below, the authorities present aligned themselves with the settlers, some even taking part in acts of brutality against the Palestinians.
At one point in in the video below (00:15) one can see a Border Police officer kicking a Palestinian woman not so much with violence as with total disrespect and disdain, and in the most un-police like behavior imaginable. He then proceeds to manhandle a Palestinian child.