{"id":530056,"date":"2026-07-07T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530056\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:34:11","slug":"border-police-commander-charged-over-checkpoint-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530056\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Police commander charged over checkpoint assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Justice Ministry\u2019s Police Investigation Department (PID) filed an indictment under a plea arrangement against Border Police<\/a> squad commander Eyal Haimov, accusing him of beating a Palestinian resident of the West Bank at a Jerusalem-area checkpoint and leaving him with a broken hand and bleeding.<\/p>\n

Haimov was charged on Tuesday in the Jerusalem Magistrate\u2019s Court with assault<\/a> causing actual bodily harm, threats, and unlawful access to computer material.<\/p>\n

The charge sheet does not detail the terms of the plea arrangement. The prosecution separately notified the court that it may seek a prison sentence if Haimov is convicted.<\/p>\n

According to the indictment, the incident took place shortly after 3 a.m. on June 11, 2024, at the Container Checkpoint, which sits within the West Bank<\/a> and connects the eastern part of Bethlehem<\/a> to the more northern town of Abu Dis.<\/p>\n

A black Cadillac carrying Bara\u2019a Issa and seven other passengers arrived at the checkpoint, where Border Police officers collected the passengers\u2019 identity cards, mobile phones, and access codes, the indictment said.<\/p>\n

\"IsraeliIsraeli security forces guard as Palestinians make their way through an Israeli checkpoint to attend Friday prayer of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, April 22, 2022. (credit: WISAM HASHLAMOUN\/FLASH90)<\/p>\n

After officers found a photograph of a weapon on Issa\u2019s phone, they showed it to Haimov and another officer. The indictment alleges that the officers then searched through the phones for prohibited material.<\/p>\n

Haimov later approached the vehicle with Issa\u2019s phone and asked who owned it.<\/p>\n

After Issa identified himself as its owner, Haimov allegedly removed him from the car, ordered him to keep his hands on his head, and took him behind the checkpoint\u2019s detention cell while holding the back of his neck.<\/p>\n

Israeli police officer charged with assaulting Palestinian\u00a0<\/p>\n

The indictment alleges that Haimov then pinned Issa against a wall and struck him repeatedly in the chest and stomach as he cried out in pain.<\/p>\n

Haimov then allegedly picked up an improvised club from the ground and struck Issa\u2019s limbs, causing a fracture to his left hand and bleeding.<\/p>\n

After seeing that Issa was bleeding, Haimov allegedly returned with a cup of water, ordered him to lift his shirt and hold it in his teeth, poured the water over him, and wiped his face with the shirt.<\/p>\n

The officer then allegedly returned Issa to the Cadillac and pushed him inside.<\/p>\n

Haimov is also accused of threatening another officer who witnessed the incident, placing a finger over his mouth and telling him, \u201cDon\u2019t you dare tell anyone about this,\u201d according to the indictment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Justice Ministry\u2019s Police Investigation Department (PID) filed an indictment under a plea arrangement against Border Police squad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23318,44917,42,43,40,38,41,39,77,108295],"class_list":["post-530056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-assault","tag-border-police","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west-bank","tag-west-bank-checkpoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}