Lawmaker Ahmad Tibi of the Joint List party spoke Thursday of his recent confrontation with an IDF Golani Brigade fighter.

“He punched me in the stomach which is why I took his hand off me. It turns out the soldier is a Kahanist -- after the incident, the first thing he did was to take a photo with Baruch Marzel,” Tibi said, referring to the Jewish settler, a follower of the late Rabbi Meir Kahana.

Tibi was seen on footage in Hebron provoking an Israeli soldier, who informed the lawmaker that he does not have the approval to pass through. The soldier’s family filed a complaint with the police against Tibi.

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