{"id":584312,"date":"2026-08-14T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584312\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:28:09","slug":"idf-to-probe-soldiers-conduct-in-west-bank-town-kusra-military-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584312\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF to probe soldiers’ conduct in West Bank town Kusra, military confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IDF will conduct a probe into the events that occurred in the West Bank village of Kusra<\/a> over the past week, and the findings will be presented to Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, a representative of the military spokesperson confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Friday.<\/p>\n

“This was a serious incident, and it will be investigated,” the representative said.<\/p>\n

According to a report published by N12, the investigation will cover, among other things, why it took soldiers 48 hours to initially evacuate the illegal outpost set up by extremist settlers, and why it took an additional day to remove the outpost a second time after the extremists returned.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the IDF will probe the conduct of troops who were reportedly sent to evacuate the outpost but didn\u2019t carry out their duty.<\/p>\n

According to N12, the IDF<\/a> will also look into the manner in which the Palestinian families of the town were evacuated on Thursday after being instructed to leave.<\/p>\n

The chaos in Kusra<\/a> began on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, dozens of settler extremists clashed with IDF forces after security forces evacuated one of the outposts. Footage seen by The Jerusalem Post showed extremists dismantling fences, blocking roads, and surrounding the area.<\/p>\n

Since then, settler leaders<\/a>, including the heads of the Yesha Council and Beit El Council, publicly denounced the violence occurring, warning that it was seriously damaging to Israel and the settlement movement.<\/p>\n

Yisrael Ganz, chairman of the Yesha Council and head of the Binyamin Regional Council, said there was no justification for violence against uninvolved Palestinians or Israeli security forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe events in Kusra are serious and are not our way,\u201d Ganz said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no place for privately deciding to establish a hilltop outpost in the yard of a house, even when it is an illegal house or there is an attempt to take control of the area,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is absolutely no justification for violence against uninvolved people or against the security forces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF will conduct a probe into the events that occurred in the West Bank village of Kusra…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70646,42,1031,264011,43,77721,40,38,41,39,77],"class_list":["post-584312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-extremism","tag-headlines","tag-idf","tag-kusra","tag-news","tag-settler-violence","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584312","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=584312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}