Samaria District Police filed an appeal against the release of farm owner Uriya Cohen, hours after a court ordered him released to house arrest earlier Monday. The hearing on the appeal is set for Tuesday morning, according to a commentator's report. The case has drawn political attention amid claims of police persecution of settlers.
Samaria District Police have filed an appeal against the court-ordered house arrest release of Uriya Cohen, the owner of Zafnat farm, according to a commentator's report Monday evening. The Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court had ordered Cohen released earlier Monday after two weeks in custody, with Judge Menachem Mizrahi criticizing the police investigation for lacking shell casing evidence or ballistic testing, and noting police acknowledged no one was wounded — contradicting earlier claims that Cohen shot an Arab assailant. The appeal hearing is set for Tuesday morning. The case has become a flashpoint in settler-police relations, with figures including Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and MK Yitzhak Kreuzer previously calling for the farmers' release. As The Zioneer reported, the commentator alleges that the appeal reflects institutional ego and a "pursuit of settlers" by the district command, contrasting it with what he describes as minimal police action against Arab rioters during the Huwara incident.
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