After days of increasing rock-throwing terror attacks on the Hussan Bypass Road, the IDF has taken up position on the approach road to Betar Illit. Mayor R’ Meir Rubinstein has been in touch with security officials, calling on the IDF to address the situation. While the military is general present, it has increased the size of the force assigned to the bypass road, with an emphasis on problematic areas.
The rock attacks seem to coincide with the announced ceasefire in Operation Protective Edge. Young terrorists from Hussan have been using their time to attack Jewish motorists.
Betar security officials remind motorists that for those wishing to travel via an alternate route; the Ein Kerem route is still available. While this option is a bit more time consuming, it is generally a safer travel option.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Rubinstein should provide live ammunition from the city budget. Warn them once or twice then shoot to kill. That is the only language these vipers understand.
Maybe we should return fire and kill some innocenr terrorists
They have been reporting for over a week that they are deploying more soldiers here. So far what I have seen has been two Molotov cocktails this week and large stones thrown tonight at about 9:15 Israel time. B”H no one has been badly hurt.
Many yishuvim and smaller cities have a series of SHOMRIM groups that participate in ‘security watch’. There is no reason that Betar doesn’t organize security groups that can assist and aid the military in their job.
Sadly, these are the arabs who build, clean and do all the work in Beitar. It’s the neighboring town! Strange that they’re comfy biting the hand that feeds them!
Why aren’t we throwing rocks back?
Mr. zionflag, I live there!
We have security! This is the neighboring town and we pass their town when coming from Yerushalyim. When coming from Lod, Tel Aviv & Beit Shemesh we come from the the othet side. That’s where the security police caught that car last week!
We’re a teeny little city here in Beitar: only about 55,000 people – about 12,700 families.
Beitar has security which is paid by all the residents. There is also a volunteer first response unit comprised of regular charedei people of the city, many of them actually chassidish.I personally saw two Molotov cocktails this past week burning on the road, and last night many large stones that had been thrown on the road a few minutes before I passed by. There is a military presence on the road but not noticeably more than usual, and seemingly only as a response to trouble after the fact. They don’t seem to be preventing very much.
Yaapchik – villages of less then 50 families manage to have civilian first response teams, Beitar has medical first response teams why not armed first response teams?
The few security guards that patrol Beitar could never be in time if an attack happened at the other end of the city, just like every enighborhood has it’s EMS teams each neighborhood should have a kitat konenut and they could also respond once or twice to rock throwing and put the fear of God in the Arabs.
….teeny little city indeed…..