Duvdevan

From Pink to the color of blood

Who does not like Cherries, with whose members are disguised revealed by the Israeli newspaper
its distinctive flavor and bright and live among Palestinians, and “Haaretz” on Tuesday 13/10/2009.
red color.. who does not describe share them everything; clothing,
beauty as cherry grains that housing, and even language The Mistaravim units are
shine and enchant hearts.. itself, as they master it as if it is specialized in murdering and
All of us in any country of the their mother tongue.. engaged with killing, using special methods
world adore its fruits, leaves and them in demonstrations, and the to carry out their crimes, the
flowers.. whole purpose is to recognize the most important is getting disguised
But in Israel, the Palestinian activists and arrest as Palestinians.
occupier, Cherries have only one them.
meaning.. Blood.. They operate outside the known
The unit of Duvdevan is a unit law, and carry out executions
Cherries in Israel or Duvdevan within the Mistaravim units, without accountability, follow-up
as called in Hebrew, is a unit perhaps the most recent is that or trial, they assassinate Palestinian
Activists without trial, and always Those early Mistaravim and worked only through the
there is a pretext that they were individuals established their “Mistaravim” method.
not able to arrest them. leadership in Beirut waiting to
be assigned specific tasks.
These units are not new in the They actually carried out extensive
history of the conflict, the record of collection of information in
the Israeli methods, and methods addition to many sabotage
of murder and assassination operations according to Israeli
adopted by successive Zionist historic sources. “Shimshon” unit logo
leaders, they even preceded the
establishment of “Israel” itself Special Israeli units diversified 3. The “Samsun” unit or the
contrary to what many people later and carried different names, “Shimshon” unit which is
believe, as they linked the and this is a quick overview of similar to Duvdevan unit in
establishment of these units to the some of them: terms of composition and
first Intifada in 1987. mode of action, with a different
area of operation that has been
1. The unit “Shaked” or unit
The first “Mistaravim” unit limited to the Gaza Strip.
no. “424” of the army, formed
formed by the Israeli organization It was dismantled with the
in 1955 in order to fight what
“Balmakh” carried the name of establishment of the Palestinian
was called then “Infiltrators”
“The Arab circle”, specialized Authority in 1994, at least
commandos across the
in spying and carrying out officially.
Southern borders with Egypt,
destructive operations targeting and was dismantled in 1979.
Palestinians inside historic 4. “Hermish” unit is an elected
Palestine and neighboring infantry unit, its area of
countries. operation included the west
Bank and Gaza Strip, it was
The unit continued to work from following the central and
1943 to 1950. “Duvdevan” unit logo southern commands and
specialized in implementing
This unit was formed in 1943 2. The unit “Duvdevan” field operations inside
by Yeruham Cohen, head of the belonging to the Israeli infantry Palestinian population centers
Syrian department of “Balmakh” forces, concentrated in the in order to abort acts of
organization, it was formed of the West Bank, and subjected to the resistance, and liquidate
Jews, descendants of Eastern authority of the Central resisters.
Jewish communities. Command. It carried out a lot of
Its mission is arresting and operations through the
The bombing of the Lebanese port liquidation of Palestinian “Mistaravim” method.
of Tripoli was the most famous of activists.
its sabotage operations, in addition It was formed before the 5. The “Mistaravim” unit,
to its activity in planting the outbreak of the first Intifada in attached to borders police
Mistaravim individuals among 1986 by order of the “Yamas” was formed at the
the Palestinians who fled from the commander of the central beginnings of the nineties
city of Haifa; as Israeli historic region at the time “Ehud of the last century in order
sources claimed that many Barak”, its first leader was to carry out assassinations
elements of the unit fled with the “Uri Bar Lev”. and arrest inside the occupied
Palestinians to Beirut disguised In the beginning, it was formed Jerusalem and the Green Line
as refugees escaping from the of the elements of the marine areas, and then extended its
crimes of Zionist organizations. commandos and paratroopers, work to areas of the West Bank.
6. Finally, the special unit individuals as special forces in them.
attached to Israeli Prisons the Israeli army, taking advantage
Authority “Masada” was of his experience when he was an The members of these units have
formed in 2003, and the officer in the special forces that no need to master the Arabic
majority of its elements of the participated in the assassination language, as the process carried
demobilized soldiers of the of the leaders (Abu Yousef out does not take more than a few
elite forces. Al-Najjar, Kamal Adwan and minutes, and sometimes they do
It aimed at the suppression of Kamal Nasser) in Beirut in 1973; he not need to talk, but the importance
the Palestinian prisoners and disguised then as an Arab woman to of using some words may save
controlling them by force. facilitate his entry to the building them from getting in trouble that
where the leaders of the Palestine may reveal their identity.
As for the methods of the Liberation Organization existed.
“Mistaravim” in being planted According to the website “Walla”
between Palestinians, they differ Based on that, the first groups of on 26/8/2013, members of the unit
according to the required tasks and the Mistaravim were selected finished at the end of last week a
the nature of the scene. when the (Duvdevan) units were long training that would qualify it
To facilitate their dirty tasks they formed officially in 1986 of the to fight in the villages of southern
sometimes: elements that are able to disguise Lebanon.
as Arabs and can speak Arabic It is noteworthy that the
1. Impersonate medical crews with high efficiency, and their competence of the individuals
equipped with the usual medical features do not differ too much of the Duvdevan unit is to carry
tools to facilitate their mission from that of the Palestinians; as out operations against Palestinian
in the arrest of those who are they have dark complexion and activists and militants at the heart
considered wanted by the look oriental, so as not to arouse of cities and villages and refugee
Occupation state. doubts when they are on their way camps densely populated in the
2. Use Palestinian vehicles to to carry out the tasks assigned to West Bank.
achieve their goals.
‫ אימון של מסתערבים‬.‫נטמעים באוכלוסייה המקומית‬
3. Disguise as women.
‫צילום׃ דובר צה"ל‬
4. Impersonate vendors. A photo showing the Duvdevan's secret exercises after being
5. Use cars to sell and collect absorbed among local residents.
used tools. This photo was taken by the spokesman for the Israeli army.
6. Impersonate foreign tourists. http://www.mako.co.il/pzm-units/special-units/Article-cd28197a7e5d031006.htm
7. Impersonate school students.
8. Disguise as vegetables sellers.

As for those recruited for the

special Mistaravim units, they
are soldiers with high competence
qualifying them to join any
special unit or the elite in the
Israeli army according to the report
of the Israeli organization for
human rights (B’Tselem) about the
events of the Mistaravim units in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
To explain, Ehud Barak introduced
substantial amendments to the rules
of recruiting the Mistaravim
 their hands and bodies while
surrendering to the occupation
forces that surrounded their homes
at dawn in the city of Nablus.

This came in a journal report

published by Haaretz newspaper
issued on Friday (5/7/2013) under
the title (an attempt of night arrest
‫ המסמלת את תחבולתו של אהוד בן גרא‬,‫ בסמל יחידת דובדבן מופיעה חרב פיפיות‬:‫סמל היחידה‬ in Nablus turned to a murder).
.‫בהתנקשותו בעגלון מלך מואב‬
Logo of the unit: The logo of the Dovdovan unit shows a double-edged sword
The summary included: The orders
symbolizing the trick of Ehud Ben Gera to assassinate Eglon, King of Moab.
http://www.217.co.il/ of the Israeli army leadership
aimed to arrest and not to kill
As the Lord in Torah orders to assassinate his enemies as stated in the book of those persecuted because of
Judges, third chapter, paragraphs 20-21 murdering the Settler Rabbi
"And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlor, which he had
Meir Hai.
for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee.
And he arose out of his seat. And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger
from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly." However, Palestinian witnesses
confirmed to Haaretz investigators
The Israeli army decided to exploit Among the criminal acts carried that the fighters of the Duvdevan
the quality of the unit to be trained
out by the Mistaravim individuals unit, Mistaravim soldiers shot
for the first time to carry out recently according to the Israeli two of the persecuted and executed
operations against “Hezbullah” journalists “Avi Zakharov” and them from a short distance although
guerillas. “Amus Harel”, that the Mistaravim they were not armed. The Israeli
soldiers from the “Duvdevan” unit Journalistic investigation shows
The website mentioned according executed two martyrs in Nablus, that the Mistaravim soldiers
to officers in the “Duvdevan” unit despite the orders of arresting suspected that the persecuted
that the unit members were trained them, because the martyrs moved moved in a “suspicious” manner
throughout a month on fighting in
an Arab village similar to villages
in Southern Lebanon, including
a wide combat area, an area of
firing rockets, and tunnels.

The Israeli channel ten aired a video

film documenting these exercises.

http://www.youtube.com/
watch?feature=player_
embedded&v=6H6kQZDW0dc
so they opened fire on them,
because the Israeli Intelligence
had told the Mistaravim soldiers
to take heed because Palestinian
militants may be in possession of
weapons when attacked.
The investigation also mentioned
that this information has confused
the Mistaravim individuals and
made them suspect evry movement
even if it is normal.

But the big question remains: how

can they fight the soldiers while
being at home and among their
children?

of his father (62 years), his sister

Baraa (34 years), the child Ramy
Al-Derby (7 years), and had
severely beaten the detainee’s
mother and his brother Ahmed (27
years) in the old town of Jenin.
http://www.ynet.co.il/
articles/0,7340,L-3563429,00.html
These forces also arrested Hasan
Israeli sources also reported that Ahmed Ali Maarei (19 years),
the Israeli occupation forces and Soliman Hatem Lahlouh (20
its “Mistaravim” units arrested years), and Waseem Hamed
at dawn on Monday 27 May 2013 Awartani (18 years) after raiding
five young men from Jenin, the their families’ homes in the Eatern
occupied West Bank, by using District, Wadi Ezz Eddin, and
police dogs that mauled bodies of Halima Saadia district, using police
citizens. dogs and door bombing amidst
sound and tear bombs.
Local sources reported that spe-
cial Israeli “Mistaravim” units No accurate figures are available
arrested the young man Shady Ali about the victims of the “Mista-
Al-Derby (32 years), supported by ravim” units, but according to First Edition of Palestine in Month
big forces of the Occupation army the book “the Mistaravim.. Is- magazine on the website
which blew the doors of the house raeli death squads” by “Ghassan www.palestine-inmonth.com/en
of the detainee and smashed its Do’ar”, 422 Palestinians are killed
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