Residents of N\'vei Tzuf and Ateret, north of Ramallah, will begin a sit-in strike outside the Prime Minister\'s Office tomorrow, to protest what they call the intolerable security situation. Possibly even more significantly, some of them destroyed a new Arab-paved road connecting the Ateret area with the Arabs\' Bir Zeit University. They said that the road had been used as an escape route for terrorists, and that the army, despite many requests to do so, had not blocked the road. In addition, several Ateret residents entered the nearby Arab village of Um Tsafa and caused some damage.
Eyal Cohen, General Secretary of Ateret, explained to Arutz-7\'s Yosef Zalmanson today that the latter action was basically a camouflage for the road-destroying mission: \"All the soldiers were busy in Um Tsafa, while our guys were able to work on the road undisturbed. They dug ditches in the road in more than one place, making the road impassable. All in all, this helped raise the morale of the residents greatly, after these nine months of suffering…\"
Dozens of Jews from Kiryat Arba and neighboring Har Hevron communities blocked roads in their vicinity to Arab traffic this morning. This action was taken in response to yesterday\'s opening of many roads that had long been closed, for security reasons, to Arab drivers. Some 30 residents of Tapuach (central Shomron, east of Ariel) burst into the Ariel police station last night to free their friends who had been arrested earlier on suspicion of planning violence against nearby Arabs. They uprooted the station gate and scuffled with policemen; three of the latter were hurt, and four Tapuach residents were arrested.
Eyal Cohen, General Secretary of Ateret, explained to Arutz-7\'s Yosef Zalmanson today that the latter action was basically a camouflage for the road-destroying mission: \"All the soldiers were busy in Um Tsafa, while our guys were able to work on the road undisturbed. They dug ditches in the road in more than one place, making the road impassable. All in all, this helped raise the morale of the residents greatly, after these nine months of suffering…\"
Dozens of Jews from Kiryat Arba and neighboring Har Hevron communities blocked roads in their vicinity to Arab traffic this morning. This action was taken in response to yesterday\'s opening of many roads that had long been closed, for security reasons, to Arab drivers. Some 30 residents of Tapuach (central Shomron, east of Ariel) burst into the Ariel police station last night to free their friends who had been arrested earlier on suspicion of planning violence against nearby Arabs. They uprooted the station gate and scuffled with policemen; three of the latter were hurt, and four Tapuach residents were arrested.