WEST JERUSALEM—Israel’s Shin Bet chief
Ronen Bar warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday that Jewish
terrorism only serves to incite Palestinian terrorism and leads to the
strengthening of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, Hebrew Ynetnews reported.
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Further, Bar warned Netanyahu against the
possibility of terrorists kidnapping Israeli residents who riot in Palestinian
villages and cities.
Bar said Jewish terror incites Palestinian
terror, bolstering the Islamic Jihad and Hamas. He also warned that there was
an increased danger that a settler may be abducted during an incursion into a
Palestinian village.
On Friday, settlers shot and killed a
19-year-old Palestinian from the village of Burqa and wounded three others
after entering the village and clashing with local residents and on Saturday, a
security guard was shot and killed by a Palestinian who allegedly planned to
carry out a terror attack in Tel Aviv.
Bar also told the prime minister that the
military was diverted from critical training regimes in light of the increased
violence that required the deployment of many of its forces to the West Bank.
A similar warning was made repeatedly by
the Israeli army and again just over one week ago, warning that Iran and their
Hezbollah proxies were also emboldened, and a change in the military’s response
was needed but could not be executed under the current circumstances with
Israeli society fractured over the judicial legislation.
In his presentation to the prime minister,
Bar said the number of Palestinian casualties and the destruction to
Palestinian property, will lead to retaliation that would cost Jewish lives.
His warnings were echoed by Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.
The violence perpetrated by settlers harms
the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority’s security services, Bar added.
The responsibility of the government is
clear, he said. Handing authority over some responsibilities in the occupied
West Bank to Religious Zionist leader Bezalel Smotrich, lax treatment of
illegal outposts, few administrative detentions of suspects among the settlers
and the support they perceive from members of the coalition who attack the
military commanders – are all factors in disrupting the efforts by security
forces, to contain the violence and carry out its primary mission of preventing
terror.
Former Defense Minister Benny Gantz on
Sunday criticized the members of the government who he said support right-wing
activists who have rioted in Arab villages in “Judea and Samaria” in recent
weeks,Haaretz reported.
“Dangerous Jewish nationalist terrorism is
developing in front of us—burning houses and vehicles, shooting, and many
incidents of taking the law into their own hands to the point of harming
Israeli soldiers,” Gantz stated.
On Sunday, National Security Minister
Itamar Ben-Gvir said the settlers suspected of the murder of the 19-year-old
Palestinian deserve praise. “Anyone he defends himself from stone-throwing
should receive a commendation,” he said, adding that he hopes for a “thorough
investigation also of the Arab rioters who threw stones and tried to murder
Jews.”
He described settlers suspected of
murdering Palestinians in West Bank as ‘”heroes”.
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