Palestinian Arab who spat on IDF officer reclassified as security prisoner in rare IPS move, reflecting severity of incident.
Israel Prison Service Commissioner (IPS) Kobi Yaakobi on Wednesday ordered that the suspect who allegedly spat on an IDF officer on a Ramat Gan bus be classified as a security prisoner, even though the charges against him are criminal.
Per the order, the suspect’s imprisonment conditions have been changed, and he was transferred from a criminal prison to a security prison.
The semi-rare move reflects on the severity with which the IPS sees the incident and its circumstances.
The Palestinian Arab from Huwara was filmed on Sunday spitting on a female IDF officer while travelling on a bus in Ramat Gan. Later, he turned himself in to the IDF Civil Administration, which handed him over to the security forces for interrogation.
