{"id":4252,"date":"2012-12-11T05:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2012-12-11T05:15:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:15:02","slug":"idf-forces-filmed-fleeing-from-palestinians-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/idf-forces-filmed-fleeing-from-palestinians-again\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF forces filmed fleeing from Palestinians (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; For a second time this month, Israeli media have shown videos of Israeli soldiers fleeing a Palestinian mob.\u00a0The video released on Monday by the news site Ynet shows a platoon running from a crowd of stone-throwing Palestinians near the West Bank settlement of Mitzpe Kedumim. Last week, Channel 2 showed a video of a separate incident that occurred on Dec. 6 some 45 miles farther south, in Hebron, when Israeli troops fled a mob into a butcher shop.<\/p>\n<p>The video from Mitzpe Kedumim shows the Israeli soldiers attempting to disperse a riot before retreating to their posts under a deluge of rocks and stones.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Maariv newspaper, three soldiers were injured in the incident, \u201ctwo by stones, one with a fractured hand and the other in the face with a cut to his head. Another fighter was hurt when a stun grenade exploded and burned his hand.&#8221;\u00a0The injured soldiers were evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah, the paper reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that the incident filmed at Mitzpe Kedumim was being investigated.\u00a0\u201cFollowing the incident, the orders pertaining to crowd control were clarified:\u00a0 Soldiers must break up violent riots with determination while exercising discretion regarding the use of force,\u201d the IDF statement said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"IDF%20forces%20filmed%20fleeing%20from%20Palestinians%20%28again%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1438,8781,721,8790,8795,1437,8788,380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}