Three residents of Shomron communities were arrested this afternoon as they, encouraged by more than 50 supporters, sat on the road to block a convoy of Disengagement Authority officials traveling near Shavei Shomron and Homesh. Among those reported to have been taken into custody is Kedumim Mayor and long-time Yesha activist Daniella Weiss.
Sometimes overlooked by the planned expulsion of nearly 8,000 residents in Gush Katif, the 500 residents of four northern Samaria communities are also on the chopping block. The move will leave practically the entire northern Shomron in Arab hands, and place areas such as Netanya, Hadera, Afula and others under the same threats they faced before the Six Day War.
Mayor Weiss, contacted by Arutz-7 while she was waiting to be interrogated by police, said, "Three of us, all women, have been arrested as we bodily prevented the disengagement bus from going through. The police struck us, and I am full of bruises... The bus, filled with 50 army officers and officials involved in infrastructures, electric, telephony and the like, was blocked from going into Sa-Nur and Homesh [two of the four Shomron communities slated for demolition], as the residents refused to allow them to enter... I can tell you that they had no personal contact with any of the residents."
Asked to comment on the ramifications of Israel's withdrawal from northern Samaria, Mayor Weiss said, "Everyone who lives on the coastal plane from Haifa to Tel Aviv must be aware that if, Heaven forbid, this area falls into the hands of those who say they are the successors to Arafat, the story will not end here, but in Ramat Gan and Herzliya."
Sometimes overlooked by the planned expulsion of nearly 8,000 residents in Gush Katif, the 500 residents of four northern Samaria communities are also on the chopping block. The move will leave practically the entire northern Shomron in Arab hands, and place areas such as Netanya, Hadera, Afula and others under the same threats they faced before the Six Day War.
Mayor Weiss, contacted by Arutz-7 while she was waiting to be interrogated by police, said, "Three of us, all women, have been arrested as we bodily prevented the disengagement bus from going through. The police struck us, and I am full of bruises... The bus, filled with 50 army officers and officials involved in infrastructures, electric, telephony and the like, was blocked from going into Sa-Nur and Homesh [two of the four Shomron communities slated for demolition], as the residents refused to allow them to enter... I can tell you that they had no personal contact with any of the residents."
Asked to comment on the ramifications of Israel's withdrawal from northern Samaria, Mayor Weiss said, "Everyone who lives on the coastal plane from Haifa to Tel Aviv must be aware that if, Heaven forbid, this area falls into the hands of those who say they are the successors to Arafat, the story will not end here, but in Ramat Gan and Herzliya."