Otzma Yehudit director-general questioned over alleged assault on police officers in Mitzpe Yeriho

Otzma Yehudit director-general Itiel Ne'eman was questioned by police on Sunday on suspicion of extortion by threats, assaulting and obstructing a police officer, and obstruction of justice, over a violent clash with officers in the West Bank settlement of Mitzpe Yeriho, Israeli media reported. The investigation concerns the same incident for which Otzma Yehudit faction chairman MK Yitzhak Kreuzer was questioned under caution about a month ago, in which a crowd allegedly confronted police officers and blocked a patrol car, helping a suspect escape.“A suspect involved in the assault of a police officer in Mitzpe Yeriho is currently being questioned at the Lahav 433 national investigations unit,” police said in a statement.Officers were injured in the incident, which was captured on a police officer's body camera. The footage is among the evidence against the suspects, according to the reports.Otzma Yehudit: 'Political persecution' by the attorney-generalOtzma Yehudit said in response that “the attorney-general's political persecution of the Otzma Yehudit party crosses every redline today, with the summoning of the party's director-general, Itiel Ne'eman, for questioning.”The party said Kreuzer had been prevented from filing a complaint with the Police Internal Investigations Department (PIID) for more than a week after he left a memorial for a childhood friend killed in battle “with a broken rib,”