Detention Orders continue .....

 Defense Minister Gallant: Settlers are law-abiding citizens, rioters are not from the area

Minister Yoav Gallant called recent violent riots by Jews in Judea and Samaria a "dangerous social phenomenon that has to be fought." [covering a....]

MK BETZALEL SMOTRICH:

“Instead of protecting the security of the citizens of Israel, Minister Gallant is busy playing media games on the backs of the settlers in Judea and Samaria. Minister Gallant leaks to the media from his office and briefs journalists like he is one of those who seek to destroy the settlements, and this is done instead of conducting himself as would be expected and according to the law by first delivering the orders [to the defendants] in an orderly and legal manner," the organization stated.

"The minister, in his conduct, is adding sin to crime. The blood is not yet dry from the severe attacks that the settlement experienced just a few days ago, and instead of giving security, the minister chose to violate human rights in the most inhumane way. Shameful."

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich issued a scathing rebuke to Gallant over the administrative detention orders.

"Against lawbreakers, criminal measures must be taken, and if only the systems were more professional and less lazy, they would be more than enough. The use of administrative detention against settlers is democratically and morally wrong. When its purpose is not to prevent future risk, but to settle accounts with the detainees for past acts attributed to them, it is also totally illegal," Smotrich wrote on Twitter.