The Palestinian who spat on an IDF officer on a public bus in Ramat Gan was transferred to Israel Police overnight Sunday after he surrendered himself to the IDF’s Civil Administration on Sunday evening.
The transfer was facilitated by the IDF and Shin Bet, which coordinated the move with the Palestinian Authority.
The police initially reported that the suspect turned himself in to the Palestinian Security Services but later corrected the statement, saying that he surrendered directly to Israeli forces.
The police said that the culprit is a 24-year-old resident of the town of Huwara, a notorious hotbed of terrorism in the northern Shomron. The police initially had difficulty locating him because he failed to pay for the bus, leaving no records to identify him.
He was in Israel illegally when the incident occurred on Sunday. On Monday morning, Tel Aviv police questioned him under caution for the alleged offenses of illegal entry in Israel, assault, and assault of a public servant.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a photo of the Arab being placed in a police car on his X account last night, and wrote: “Zero tolerance for anyone who harms IDF soldiers.”
His former colleague from Chevron, Baruch Marzel, sardonically responded: “Have you already transferred aid to him?” – a reference to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s controversial decision on Sunday to resume the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Women don’t belong in the army. A woman belongs at home that’s why she was spitting at by this Arab. It is forbidden according to Jewish law for a woman to be in the army. Many Jewish girls would rather commit suicide than be in an army as it is a sin.
I certainly hope that he’s now minus his filthy tongue.
This is actually an interesting מוסר השכל. This piece of garbage was in Israel illegally, and riding the bus without paying. He most probably has a prior record too… By all logic, he should have kept as low a profile as he could, just to avoid getting caught… But he couldn’t resist the call of duty as a brave Muslim Shahid to spit on a girl… Who knows what he was doing inside Israel to begin with… If Hashem wouldn’t have taken from this dreck the very little sechel he still may have had, just at the right moment, who knows if the Shin Bet and Police would have caught him on time. על ניסיך שבכל יום עמנו