(Ynet News) Yoav Zitun - After a video went online showing two Palestinian women hitting and kicking IDF soldiers in an effort to provoke a reaction out of them, a senior IDF officer explained Tuesday the challenges soldiers serving in the West Bank face on a daily basis while dealing with the Palestinian population. The two young women were later arrested, and the army has instructed its forces to arrest such provocateurs on the spot. "The video doesn't show what happened before that - the soldiers were there because there was violent rioting," the officer said. "The soldiers' response should be praised for the way they acted: professionally and ethically." Soldiers now participate in workshops that include simulations of such incidents and the results can be seen in the field. Since January 2017, troops in Hebron have arrested 58 Palestinians carrying knives without firing a single shot. "There are dozens of incidents in the different sectors, provocations done by radicals on all sides, sometimes a few times a day," the officer said.
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