Representatives of communities in the Benjamin and Shomron Regional Councils in Shomron are calling on IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Gabi Ashkenazi not to remove checkpoints in Shomron in compliance with Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s plan to ease restrictions on PA (Palestinian Authority) residents.
 
The representatives explain that at present, a time during which there is a sharp increase in terror attacks against Jews on roads in Yehuda and Shomron, removing checkpoints is nothing less than “gambling with the lives of residents” to satisfy a political yearning that will undoubtedly prove erroneous.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)