by Elchanan Groner, Investigative Reporter
“Brother, I have been disarmed.” This is how Benayahu Melet, hy”d (picture above) turned to me one day about a year and a half ago. It was after the order of the previous Samaria Brigade Commander to confiscate the weapons of the Havat Gilad rapid response team members for inspection.
Benayahu reported to me that the brigade had collected their weapons at the end of a rapid response team training session. The suspicion: One of the team members had fired at Arab terrorists. They had approached within about a hundred meters of Havat Gilad under the guise of olive harvesters and thrown stones.
A few days later, the brigade returned Benayahu’s weapon. One of the residents, a veteran of the Undercover Counter-Terrorism Unit, was arrested and charged with shooting. The directive was clear. “The Brigade Commander wants to send us a message,” Benayahu told me.
Today, Benayahu’s widow cries out to back our fighters so there will be no more widows and orphans. But if Benayahu and the Military Security Coordinator (Ravsha”tz) had known they had backing to shoot—rather than Judea and Samaria District Police investigators and ‘conceptzia’ officers waiting for them in the background with debriefings and investigations over every little thing—perhaps Benayahu would still be with us.
Source: Hilltop News
Posted July 30, 2026
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