The deadly attack in Bali today (Thursday), in which Yitzhak Zeiger (58) of Shomron Shomron and Uriah Hartom (16.5) of Dolev were murdered, did not necessarily surprise the residents of the area.
The Baali gas station, where another deadly attack took place last June in which four people were murdered, is a crowded area where crowds pass every day - but the security there, according to the residents, is far from sufficient.
Ariel Elmaleh, chairman of the Ali settlement committee, near the scene of the attack: "They were waiting for the army to lower the alert level here.
We see it for sure.
The entire time that the stores were open, there were forces here, for three months they were here in the field, and not a single terrorist came near here." According to him, "In the last month, the guarding decreased, the force that was here was no longer what is called a foot on the ground, but moved from place to place and the terrorists waited for a moment This one, find him and enter us."
Those murdered in the attack on my husband.
Yitzhak Zeiger and Uriah Hartum/Official website, Yishai Simansky/TPS, according to section
Elmaleh referred to the security of the station, which is a crowded place, "This station is in the center of Judea and Samaria, thousands of vehicles pass through here an hour, businesses are active, and in this reality it is impossible to leave the place without fighters who are here regularly. And as soon as the movement here is free, then it is easy to sabotage with the most powerful weapons Improvised that he gets what he wants and kills Jews," he said.
"There is an alternative road outside of Ali and Route 60 that can be blocked at two points so that only Israelis can travel, this is not apartheid or anything. There is an alternative route that starts from Ma'ale Lavona and another Sanjil intersection, and bypasses the entire block of Shiloh and Ali, all the Israeli settlements."
According to him, "If we manage to do it when they know they don't have access to this axis, then we will be at a different event and no one will come to the gas station."
Referring to the terrorist Muhammad Mansara's association with the Palestinian police, "I don't know what an officer in the Palestinian police is and what a terrorist is. Anyone who possesses a weapon, whether it is in the possession of the Palestinian police or in the possession of the Israeli administration, their weapons should be taken from them. Clean all their houses, which they do In Gaza, it should be done in IOSH.
The army has done an excellent job here in the last few months and we felt very safe and we should make an effort to move on and not stop.
"You can't leave the place without fighters."
IDF forces at the scene of the attack, IDF spokesman/owner
Hamda Hadi, a resident of the settlement of Ali: "When I leave the settlement, I am afraid. We don't go down to the gas station with the children because the areas here are burning, stones are thrown here. Every time I go to work in Ariel as the chairman of a committee at the university, I am alert.
And she also avoids traveling in the evenings."
Hadi described the feelings in the area "All the time the sector is on fire.
It's either you or someone else.
They drive together with us on the same road, it's terribly scary.
The Palestinians' access to a gas station and to the road is free, as far as we are concerned they will not be allowed to drive on the road, this is our road, our gas stations.
We are not experiencing coexistence here."
The IDF spokesman's response:
"Since the beginning of the war, the security forces have been operating in defense and increased attacks in the area of the Judea and Samaria Division.
The number of forces in the sector is determined in accordance with the current assessments of the situation, in order to provide security to all residents of the area."
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