The army reprimanded an IDF commander and his unit for their violent response to a left-wing protest in the South Hebron Hills region of the West Bank adding that in the future such incidents involving Israeli citizens would be better handled by the police.
"The officer in charge is a respected commander," the IDF said on Sunday, two days after the Friday demonstration in which five activists were detained and three were injured.
"An investigation found, however, that he erred and acted in a way that did not conform to the reality [at hand] or with IDF norms," the army said in a statement.