Hundreds of women demonstrated today at the Gush Etzion Junction where two attacks took place over the past week resulting in the murder of four Jews – three in a shooting attack last week including an 18-year-old American student Ezra Schwartz HY”D, Yaakov Ron HY”D of Alon Shvut, a PA resident and Hadar Buchris HY”D, 21, in a stabbing attack there on Monday, 11 Kislev.

The protesters, mothers and students living in the area, came to the junction by bus and private car from Efrat, Migdal Oz, Kfar Etzion and other local Jewish communities.

Gush Etzion Regional Council director Davidi Perl addressed the crowd and called for security, but stressed that police and military measures are only bandaids if the underlying root measures are not taken. “We must roll back the Two-State Solution and assert Israeli sovereignty in Yehuda and Shomron”, he stated.

Though not in time for the to defend the recent victims, stricter security measures are being implemented at the junction including the construction of new fences, a rerouting of Arab traffic to bypass the junction, new concrete blocks to counter car-ramming attacks at the bus stops, and the deployment of more soldiers.

Israel felt the brunt of the renewed Jihad attack-wave on Monday as a terrorist stabbed to death IDF soldier Ziv Mizrachi HY”D and injured a young woman at a gas station on highway 443, while in another incident an elderly Arab was stabbed by two female teen terrorists near Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda shuk.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Photos: Yishai Fleisher)