Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan spoke to the Commanding Officer of the Samaria Brigade, COL Shimon Siso, following the shooting attack near Kedumim in which one person was murdered Thursday afternoon.
"This shooting attack illustrates that the terrorist organizations are testing us again and again and again even after the operation in northern Samaria. The citizens of Israel and of course the residents of Samaria always support the IDF soldiers and the security forces and demand from the government to give a crushing response to this terrorism as to all the terrorism of the Palestinian Authority," Dagan said.
"We need to make it clear to them that we will not be broken here, we will never break, the government must release the IDF from its shackles and let the IDF operate in the entire area of Judea and Samaria with all its might in order to quell the wave of terrorism and bring security to the entire State of Israel," he said.
An investigation revealed that the terrorist opened fire on Israeli security guards near the Mitzpeh Yishai neighborhood and then proceeded to the nearby Jit junction, where he opened fire and killed one Israeli. A firefight with Israeli security forces ensued until the terrorist was eliminated.
An alarm was activated in Kedumim and residents were temporarily instructed to remain in their homes.