MK Sukkot Seen Smashing Monument in West Bank Town While Guarded by Israeli Forces, Footage Shows
- On Tuesday, Religious Zionism Party MK Zvi Sukkot destroyed a monument in Madama during a military-secured tour, prompting the IDF to rebuke him for misleading troops and exceeding his authority.
- Sukkot claimed the monument glorified Yamen Taieb Ali Faraj, who assisted in the 2003 Geha Junction bombing, arguing such structures legitimize violence and present perpetrators as heroes to future generations.
- According to the military, participants acted 'deceitfully and manipulatively' without authority; commanders ordered the demolition stopped 'immediately' and removed the group within minutes.
- Opposition MK Gilad Kariv of the Democrats party criticized the military for applying inconsistent standards, noting his recent requests for IDF-coordinated visits to Qusra were denied due to lack of manpower.
- The incident follows previous clashes between Sukkot and senior military officials over resource diversion for political tours, with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir previously complaining that security visits had become political events.
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In the West Bank, a nationalist Israeli MP destroyed a Palestinian monument to "martyrs," calling for terrorism, he said.
In a Palestinian village, an ultra-nationalist Knesset deputy can be filmed in the destruction of a monument. He sees in the monument a glorification of terror. The opposition accuses him of inciting new conflicts in the West Bank.
(Cairo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Sang-hoon = An incident occurred in which an Israeli far-right politician vandalized a Palestinian monument in the West Bank while under the escort of the Israeli military...
Israeli far-right deputy Zvi Sukot tried on Tuesday to destroy a memorial in memory of Palestinian martyrs in a village in the occupied West Bank, claiming that they were "terrorists", an act condemned by the army and the political class.
A far-right Israeli parliamentarian, accompanied by a military escort, smashed a Palestinian memorial with a hammer in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
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