The grassroots Judea Residents’ Council has revealed that a CT scan conducted on Asher Palmer, who was murdered with his baby son Yehonatan on Friday, as well as an autopsy conducted in the Abu Kabir forensic lab, both confirm that a rock hit his face and caused fractures in the front of his skull.

Boaz Haetzni, head of the Council and an IDF reserve lieutenant colonel, said Sunday: “We feel like we have been betrayed and shot in the back. It is us whom they persecute – they destroy our homes, and they call these murderers “partners” [in security coordination, ed.]… We feel betrayed and deceived…”

“We demand that the IDF Chief of Staff and the Commissioner of Police order a thorough review of the way the IDF Spokesman and the Judea and Samaria Spokeswoman conduct themselves. They cause grave harm to security and to the reliability of the IDF and Israel Police.” 

Sources in the Hevron Regional Council expressed the feeling that the facts were concealed so that there would be no disturbances while Prime Minister Netanyahu was in the United States, an unfortunate decision which caused the Palmer family and friends unnecessary anguish in the midst of tragedy.