The head of the Samaria Council, Yossi Dagan, in an attack on the IDF spokesman:

 The head of the Samaria Council, Yossi Dagan, in an attack on the IDF spokesman: "He slandered the fighter Shobal Ben Natan from Samaria with a terrible injustice after he killed a Hamasnik who attacked with rocks."

* Yossi Dagan accompanied by the warrior Shubal ben Natan the 14th of Marchalim: "You have been slandered with a terrible injustice"*

*Dagan in an unusual attack on the IDF spokesman in his obituary at the funeral of the Samaria fighter Colonel Shubal Ben Natan who fell in Lebanon: "You were defamed with a terrible injustice including the IDF spokesman who was based on a false report" in his words Dagan was referring to the event 11 months ago, in which with the approval of the Samaria rabbi he issued In the middle of Shabbat, a message defending the fighter who allegedly shot at a Palestinian while he was protecting his family. The fighter's father commented on this in the obituary and said: "You were so hurt but you rose up"*.

An unusual attack by the head of the Samaria Council, Yossi Dagan, during the eulogy he delivered in memory of the soldier Colonel Shobal Ben Natan the 14th, a resident of Rahlim in Samaria, who fell in battle in southern Lebanon during the holiday.

In his obituary, Dagan referred to a serious incident 11 months ago, when the Ben Natan family went for a walk in their plantation near their home on Saturday afternoon, when Hamas terrorists attacked them with rocks. Shubal, who went out to Aftar and was walking with his family, shot in the air, to protect his family and immediately after that, false messages were issued by the Palestinian Authority claiming that settlers attacked Palestinians and one of them shot a Palestinian and killed him. The IDF spokesman issued a statement and claimed: "Violent friction" even before the incident was fully investigated. Shubal was arrested, and Dagan went out in an extremely unusual way already during Shabbat, in a statement to the media in which he backed the soldier with the special approval of the Rabbi of Samaria Rabbi Eliakim Lebanon. Last night, when he was on his way to the funeral, Dagan was informed that a few days ago the case was closed because it was found that Shubal had acted properly, but Shubal did not have time to receive the message that vindicates him completely because he fought in the depths of the territory.

"11 months ago, near Rachel, you defended your family that was attacked by Hamasniks under the auspices of the harvest. And you killed one of the Hamasniks," said the head of the Samaria Council Yossi Dagan in Hespadan: *"You were defamed with a terrible injustice, including the IDF spokesman who was based on a false report. You sat in vain for two weeks in detention, and when you got out you fought to return to the battalion*, to receive weapons back and to return to fight, including in Lebanon. That's how you did until your last breaths. A general Jew of Clal Israel. Tonight they informed me that a few days ago the case against you was finally closed, but they could not inform you that it was found that you behaved properly, because you were deep in Lebanon. You fought and defended all of Israel, until your last breaths."

Dagan added: "All of you - crying and hurting, but I promise you we are not broken, we will never be broken." We will build our country even more, we will build more. We will fight for victory in your special way and with your strength."

* Shubal's father, Rabbi Ben Natan, also referred to the difficult case, in which his son Shubal was persecuted after protecting his family that Shabbat, spent two weeks in detention, and the fact that he did not break and nevertheless chose to return and enlist:*

"Shuval, I was so in awe of you, almost a year ago we went for a walk, there were damned olive musketeers, terrorists, that the IDF does not perceive the incident, a few days after Simchat Torah, we let them approach the settlements, and we go for a walk, dozens of Arabs surround us And they throw stones at us.

The bastards arrested you, they didn't even investigate the Arabs, that's the essence of all the confusion we live in. *You left so hurt, you said to me: "I can't stand it" You were just hurt. Is this the warrior from whom weapons are taken? How many such warriors there are, our heroes!*

*After all the harm you got over yourself, and said, "It doesn't matter, here we fight, and here I will go!"... We felt that you transcended all the harm"*

On that Shabbat, Dagan, with the approval of Rabbi Lebanon, issued an unusual statement backing Shubal and saying:

"This incident is a simple incident. This is a normative, good family, resident of the settlement, the father is an educator, the son is a combat fighter in the IDF on Shabbat vacation, they went towards their plantation adjacent to the settlement, and were attacked by dozens of rioters with stones and rocks in the area adjacent to their plantation. This is a soldier on leave who shot in the air to protect the lives of his father and younger brothers, fired 2 shots in the air, later shooting towards the infantry, and reported this to his commander in real time.

I say clearly, the details are simple and clear - a family that was attacked and I fully support the warrior on leave who defended his life and the lives of his family and behaved as he should"

Dagan commented that even during the funeral, the terrorist's family members read slogans in support of Hamas and the murder of Jews: "Now during the funeral, the family of the terrorist, whether he was shot or not, I don't know - because they kidnapped the body.

His brother inflames the crowd with a Hamas flag and calls for the murder of the Jews with Hamas slogans. Also in the field, in the documentation that the terrorists released, the terrorist appears lying on the floor with a stone next to him, and also the terrorist who came to help him as soon as he was hit holding a rock in his hand.

I fully back who Shira was!"

Source: ראש מועצת שומרון יוסי דגן בהתקפה על דובר צהל: הכפיש בעוול נוראי את הלוחם שובאל בן נתן מהשומרון לאחר שחיסל חמאסניק שתקף בסלעים - חדשות רוטר