The head of the Beit El Regional Council Shay Alon told Binyamin Brigade Commander that if it was decided to open the Focus checkpoint, which leads from El Bira to Route 60, "we will close it with our bodies."
"An unimaginable situation has arisen that the army has decided to make it easier for the Palestinians and allow them more free movement, and in exchange they turn the road into a path of terrorists," Alon said.