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| IDF sets up more checkpoints, makes arrests on first day of bid to quell terror |
| 2015-11-25 |
| [IsraelTimes] Amid escalating attacks, security services step up measures against Paleostinian stabbing, car-ramming New measures are being introduced in the West Bank to tackle the wave of Paleostinian terror attacks that has swept Israel over the past two months. A wave of stabbings, shootings and vehicular rammings have killed at least 22 victims since the beginning of October, including seven in the last week alone. Over 80 percent of the perpetrators have come from the West Bank. Overnight Monday, IDF soldiers set up checkpoints surrounding Hebron, Hawara and Nablus, as well as around villages adjacent to the Etzion settlement bloc, according to Channel 10 news. Security forces were reportedly checking all Paleostinian vehicles leaving the Hebron area, with hundreds of troops added to the IDF forces deployed to the area to secure the new checkpoints. Security officials said 16 West Bank terror suspects were jugged Please don't kill me! overnight Monday, including 12 Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, activists. A joint force of IDF soldiers, Border Police and the Shin Bet security agency carried out the arrests. On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced tighter controls on Paleostinian vehicles and an increase in the number of so-called "bypass roads" that create separate routes for Paleostinians and Israelis. Visiting the Etzion Junction in the West Bank Monday, Netanyahu said the army was stepping up its operations in the West Bank and has been given free rein in the area to preempt terror attacks. He urged Israelis to be resilient in the fight against terror. "On the offensive side," Netanyahu said, "we're going anywhere [we need to]. We're entering [Paleostinian] villages, we're entering towns, we're entering homes, and conducting widespread arrests. There are no restrictions on the activities of the IDF and the security forces. On the contrary -- there's full support, and this is vital." Netanyahu said that security forces are taking preventative action in the West Bank "day in and day out" to put an end to the current situation in which "hundreds of Israelis are killed every year by jacket wallahs and other attackers." |
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