Cable News Clips

In the end, it turned out that the area was no longer a closed zone, and even when it was, it probably had been so to keep vigilante settlers away from harassing the Palestinians there, not to prevent a prominent US Congressman from touring the site.

as vigilante settlers do not have the right to take the law into their own hands and detain people.

Eventually, a police official arrived, and minutes earlier, the settlers had run from the scene, as if to signal they understood they should not have been there.

The IDF has said it identified at least one settler, who was an IDF officer off duty and is "clarifying" with him regarding his role - something which sounds like a small censure, but not major disciplinary actions.