Judea and Samaria
The new community is also known as “Neve Ori,” in memory of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, a Gush resident who was murdered in 2019 by an Arab terrorist.
Work on the project, which is part of a larger plan to expand Route 60 from Jerusalem toward northern Samaria, is set to start later this year.
“A war is being waged in Judea and Samaria; the prime minister and the IDF should treat it as a war,” said the Yesha Council, which called the rallies.
The bomb, which was planted inside a gas cylinder, contained more than 100 pounds of explosive material.
The recent dramatic surge in terrorist attacks emanating from the area has convinced Israel’s security establishment that a shift in strategy is required.
Twenty-five have been arrested and 30 explosives neutralized, many buried under roads, according to the military.
Roni Shakuri was fatally shot in a terror attack near Hebron—his daughter Mor died battling terrorists at the Sderot police station on Oct. 7.
The movement warned it would continue to “pursue the occupier [Israel] at every intersection, alley and neighborhood, until it is expelled from our land.”
There were no casualties in the incident, which Yisrael Ganz, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, called a “great miracle.”
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades hailed the terrorists who carried out the “heroic Hebron operation.”
“We have the opportunity to do what we failed to do in Gaza on the night between Oct. 6 and 7,” the Israeli finance minister urged.
The slain soldier was named as St. Sgt. Elkana Navon, from Petach Tikvah.
