Dozens of Arab rioters from the village of Zurif attacked Ohavi-Ya Hill in Gush Etzion, burning down buildings including the Beit Midrash which housed hundreds of holy books. The attack followed the assassination of a terrorist from the same village who carried out a stampede attack at the Beit Omer intersection injuring three IDF soldiers. Meir Simcha, a resident of the hill, expressed disappointment with the army’s effort to protect the hill and prevent the attack. He criticized the security system for failing to distinguish between enemies and friends, a mistake he said could have been avoided with better investment in preventing the village’s terrorist activities. Several photos and a video were posted in the article.
Dozens of Arab rioters from the village of Zurif today (Monday) climbed the Ohavi-Ya Hill in Gush Etzion during the afternoon hours, vandalized a lot of equipment and set fire to the buildings on the hill – including the Beit Midrash which contained hundreds of holy books that were completely burned.
The Arab attack comes against the backdrop of the assassination of the terrorist resident of the village who carried out the stampede attack at the Beit Omer intersection, in which three IDF soldiers were seriously and moderately injured.
Meir Simcha, a resident of the hill, said: “The Arab rioters penetrated into the hill area and set fire to house after house with gasoline. Everything burned, and the midrash also caught fire along with the hundreds of holy books that were in it. Only after a few minutes, with the help of reinforcements from residents, we managed to push the rioters back The sights here are shocking and we still have a hard time digesting them.”
According to him, “The army arrived only after a long time and did not fulfill its role to protect the hill. You don’t have to be a genius or a senior intelligence officer to know that a day after an attack came out of the village of Iber. The army failed miserably here.”
“Today’s difficult incident is the result of a security system that confused between enemy and lover. If the security system had invested half the amount of resources it devoted to the persecution of the hill and its people in the last two years – in preventing terrorism from the village of the murderers Zurif, both the stampede attack and the attack on the hill would have been avoided. We call on the security system and the ministers of government Arrest the violators today and punish them with all severity,” he added.
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