The "Homesh First" group praised Yitzhar residents who retaliated against a nearby Palestinian Authority Arab village in Samaria on Saturday which they believed was harboring the terrorist who had stabbed a nine-year-old boy in the Jewish community earlier in the day.
The "IDF should learn how to fight terrorism from Yitzhar residents," said Homesh First in a statement Saturday night, adding that it blamed the government for the terrorist attack that had taken place earlier in the day. Homesh First activists have led the struggle to re-establish a presence at the site of the ruins of the former community of Homesh in northern Samaria, which was destroyed by the government in the Disengagement from Gaza in 2005.