The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday ordered the immediate release without restrictive conditions of Tal Yinon Dardik, a suspect in an attack on Palestinians in March, after he spent 38 days in custody due to administrative restraining orders against him.

Following his release from custody, Dardik will remain bound by measures imposed on him by IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, which prevent him from entering any areas of the West Bank except for the city settlement of Modiin Illit, where he will be required to report to the local police station twice a day.

Dardik is suspected of a brutal attack in Khirbet Humsa, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, where he, along with other extremist settlers, allegedly stripped a Palestinian victim, zip-tied his genitals, and paraded him around the village. Dardik denies taking part in the incident.

He was initially placed under house arrest outside of his illegal settlement farming outpost of Kfar Tarfon on June 9, but was put in a detention cell under an administrative restraining order in early July after repeatedly violating the terms of his detention.

An administrative order enables authorities to hold or restrict suspects indefinitely without charge. The measure is used almost exclusively against Palestinians after Defense Minister Israel Katz sought to end its use against Jewish extremists.

Dardik had insisted that any house arrest be served at his home at the unauthorized farming outpost of Kfar Tarfon in the West Bank’s Area B........

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