Following last night\'s N\'vei Tzuf shooting attack, local residents explained that a new local commander had removed several roadblocks in the area of his own initiative. \"We warned the army that this would happen,\" Rafi Ben-Bassat told Arutz-7 today, \"but they told us that they didn\'t exactly take down the roadblocks but are rather moving them around from place to place - empty answers of that nature. We told them that these were critical locations - and in fact the attack that we warned about happened... We\'ll wait 24 hours and we\'ll see what happens.\" Dozens of N\'vei Tzufites demonstrated at the site of last night\'s shooting, demanding better protection. Ben-Bassat said that his community continues to thrive, despite the difficulties, and that six new families arrived over the summer. He acknowledged that some people have changed their driving habits: \"Some take advantage of a special arrangement organized by the Regional Council with bulletproof public buses, while others drive with bulletproof vests, and still others drive as they always have... We continue to be optimistic, and we\'re sure that we will win; we\'ve been here 25 years, and we\'ll be here forever.\"



Similar security concerns also exist further north in the Shomron. Parents in Einav and Shavei Shomron did not send their children to school today, the first day after the Chanukah vacation, to protest the army\'s \"laxness\" in protecting the school buses. Outside Emanuel, where a terrorist massacre claimed the lives of ten Jews last week, Mayor Yisachar Frankental and his town council continue their sit-in protest at the abandoned building used by the murderers to launch their attack. Frankental said today that he asked the army both before and after the slaughter to demolish the building, but to no avail.