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IDF suspends 7 troops who refused to take part in Hebron evacuation
By Haaretz Staff and The Associated Press

GOC Central Command, Major General Gadi Shamni, decided on Sunday to suspend from combat units the soldiers who disobeyed orders and refused to take part in the evacuation of settlers from the Hebron wholesale market last month.

The soldiers were part of a group of religiously observant infantrymen who refused to participate in the eviction of two Israeli families squatting illegally in a Palestinian wholesale market in the West Bank town of Hebron.

The soldiers refused to take part in guard duty along the Hebron-Jerusalem highway for they felt that the mission would negate their ideology as it would indirectly assist the evacuation of Jewish families by filling in for Border Police troops who would be diverted to carrying out the evacuation.

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A dozen soldiers were jailed after the August 6 incident. Seven were suspended upon their release, an army spokesman's statement said, and the rest will face a hearing later this week.

Tensions have been high since Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005, forcibly removing its 9,000 settlers. Last February, soldiers clashed with settlers again when they uprooted part of the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona.
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  1.   Promote Them 14:58  |  Yishai Kohen 10/09/07
  2.   suspension 15:38  |  colin 10/09/07
  3.   Our brave chayalim do not "just follow orders..." 15:54  |  bat yam 10/09/07
  4.   Stop giving bibles to the soldiers 16:04  |  Fred 10/09/07
  5.   Haaretz needs a lesson in semantics... 16:05  |  bat yam 10/09/07
  6.   Stop using IDF against Jews 16:06  |  lisa 10/09/07
  7.   Bring on the israeli russian mercenary army 16:18  |  ALP 10/09/07
  8.   excellent! 16:24  |  Barbara 10/09/07
  9.   #8 Barbara 16:36  |  * BEN JABO 10/09/07
  10.   Heroes! 16:42  |  Yuval 10/09/07
  11.   Why there will be no peace for Israel 17:17  |  spyguy 10/09/07
  12.   Olmert is the one who should be suspended 17:34  |  Polybios 10/09/07
  13.   i dont think i could stomach being 1 of olmerts bodyguards 17:44  |  de sterix 10/09/07
  14.   ben jabo 9 17:47  |  realism 10/09/07
  15.   to#8 Barbara 19:15  |  David 10/09/07
  16.   #9, Ben Jabo... 20:02  |  Silvienne 10/09/07
  17.   prison them 21:09  |  amir 10/09/07
  18.   Troop Suspension 21:28  |  Larry 10/09/07
  19.   #9 JABO If IDF had consciences they`d kick the settlers out!! 22:26  |  Don Camillo 10/09/07
  20.   #11 Silvienne - too many what if`s 22:30  |  * BEN JABO 10/09/07
  21.   To all the Jews who believs that every soldier 22:36  |  dovale 10/09/07
  22.   NO ARMY can be "democratic` AND BE an army 23:14  |  JON FEIGENBAUM 10/09/07
  23.   #15 Camillo 01:43  |  * BEN JABO 11/09/07
  24.   #17 Dovale - Eilat 01:45  |  * BEN JABO 11/09/07
  25.   #17, Ben Jabo... 02:18  |  Silvienne 11/09/07
  26.   Don Camillo & Ben Jabo... 02:21  |  Silvienne 11/09/07
  27.   #19, Job Feigenbaum... 02:22  |  Silvienne 11/09/07
  28.   #17-2 Silvienne 03:12  |  * BEN JABO 11/09/07
  29.   Silvienne - I can go to UTUBE 03:15  |  * BEN JABO 11/09/07
  30.   #28, Ben Jabo... 06:57  |  Silvienne 11/09/07
  31.   ben jabo 29 20:06  |  realism 11/09/07
  32.   #31 realism 00:28  |  * BEN JABO 12/09/07
  33.   ben jabo 32 05:18  |  realism 12/09/07
  34.   #33 realism Another Armchair General 08:16  |  * BEN JABO 12/09/07
  35.   ben jabo 34 14:00  |  realism 12/09/07
  36.   Ben Jabo & Realism 17:25  |  Silvienne 12/09/07
  37.   Realism - No such animal as "disproportionate" 18:06  |  * BEN JABO 12/09/07
  38.   BEN JABO 36 19:38  |  realism 12/09/07
  39.   #36, Ben Jabo... 19:44  |  Silvienne 12/09/07
  40.   #39 Silvienne - what you believe is immaterial 00:24  |  * BEN JABO 13/09/07
  41.   #38 realism 00:29  |  * BEN JABO 13/09/07
  42.   ben jabo 39 03:57  |  realism 13/09/07
  43.   #40, Ben Jabo... 05:35  |  Silvienne 13/09/07
  44.   #42, Realism... 05:39  |  Silvienne 13/09/07
  45.   #42 realism ??? hardly 06:09  |  * BEN JABO 13/09/07
  46.   #39 Silvienne 06:56  |  * BEN JABO 13/09/07
  47.   Ben Jabo, please read this... 07:03  |  Silvienne 13/09/07
  48.   ben jabo 09:57  |  realism 13/09/07
  49.   348 realism 21:13  |  * BEN JABO 13/09/07
  50.   ben jabo 49 01:27  |  realism 14/09/07
  51.   #50, Realism... 02:31  |  Silvienne 15/09/07
  52.   #51 silvienne re: realism 04:04  |  * BEN JABO 15/09/07
  53.   Ben Jabo... 05:58  |  Silvienne 15/09/07
  54.   silvienne 51 07:15  |  realism 15/09/07
  55.   Silvienne - the same people 13:13  |  * BEN JABO 15/09/07
  56.   Silvienne - re: realism 13:17  |  * BEN JABO 15/09/07
  57.   Silvienne re: Realism 13:23  |  * BEN JABO 15/09/07
  58.   Silvienne re post 56 19:53  |  realism 15/09/07
  59.   #57, Ben Jabo.. 05:44  |  Silvienne 16/09/07
  60.   #58, realism... 05:46  |  Silvienne 16/09/07
  61.   #55, Ben Jabo, regarding these cars... 05:50  |  Silvienne 16/09/07
  62.   silvienne 60 11:35  |  realism 16/09/07
  63.   #61 Silvienne - it`s TWO cars 17:52  |  * BEN JABO 16/09/07
  64.   #62, realism... 03:34  |  Silvienne 17/09/07
  65.   #63, Ben Jabo... 03:42  |  Silvienne 17/09/07
  66.   Bem, forgot to say this... 05:20  |  Silvienne 17/09/07
  67.   #65 Silvienne 07:39  |  * BEN JABO 17/09/07
  68.   #66 Silvienne - by this time you should 07:46  |  * BEN JABO 17/09/07
  69.   Ben Jabo...sorry... 00:28  |  Silvienne 18/09/07
  70.   #69 Silvienne 22:52  |  * BEN JABO 19/09/07
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