A settler under an unusual six-month administrative house arrest order by the IDF Central Command was permitted to leave his mother's home for eight hours total, including three hours for his engagement party, according to Honenu attorney Adi Kedar. Kedar criticized the permit's brevity and what he described as the security establishment's harassment of settlers rather than focusing on the Arab enemy.
A settler placed under an exceptional six-month administrative house arrest order by IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth was permitted to leave his mother's home for eight hours Sunday to attend his engagement party, with three hours designated for the event itself, according to the Honenu legal aid organization.
Attorney Adi Kedar, who represents the settler, said the permit was only issued after a request to Bluth; the original order bars the settler from leaving his mother's home in a distant community. Kedar stated that just a week earlier, the order had been issued a day after the settler's engagement, preventing the couple from signing contracts for a wedding hall or apartment. He called on the security establishment to stop what he termed persecution of settlers and focus on the Arab enemy.
Honenu's report is the sole source of this account; the IDF has not commented. The case follows a similar Honenu complaint in early June where a house-arrest permit was reportedly emailed two hours after the settler's ID appointment.
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