Illustrative: Soldiers in Israel's ultra-Orthodox 'Netzah Yehuda' unit at the Peles Military Base in the northern Jordan Valley, August 2013. (Photo Credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers conduct raids in the West Bank village of Kobar on December 31, 2018. [Photo Source: Israel Military]Jerusalem24 – In January 2022, the elderly Omar Abdel Majid Asaad, 80 years old, from the village of Jilijliya, in the Ramallah governorate, a Palestinian citizen with an American passport, died after Israeli soldiers tied him up for hours and threw him in the cold.
Asaad’s death received local and international reactions because of the incident. It was a battalion in the Israeli army called Netzah Yehuda that stormed Jilijliya and caused the death of Asaad.
The issue of Asaad’s death is added to a long record of repressive and improvisational practices carried out by this battalion.
In this episode of Wake Up Palestine, Walid Habbas sheds light on the Netzah Yehuda battalion, which is made up mainly of hardened settler soldiers, with biblical convictions, ideological hostility to Arabs, and internal competition for violence.
Ramallah based journalist, Mohammad graduated from Al-Quds University with a B.A. in Media and Television. He has covered the 2015 Jerusalem Intifada as well as the Great March of Return for international media outlets. currently an editor/presenter at Jerusalem24. A UN alumni and a follower of global events and politics, especially American affairs.
