(IsraelNN.com) Over the past week, the IDF has reduced its anti-terrorism activities in Judea and Samaria – because its forces are busy helping enforce the freeze on Jewish construction.
Specifically, the IDF is carrying out fewer patrols and fewer initiated actions against Palestinian terrorist elements. Instead, the forces in the area are assigned with providing protection to Civil Administration inspectors who are distributing stop-work orders in the Jewish towns.
Military affairs correspondent Haggai Huberman reports that an officer serving in Judea and Samaria said, “We are barely doing patrols or initiating actions against terrorists, except for the bare necessary minimum.”
Security responsibility in Judea and Samaria is shared by the police, Border Guard and the IDF. In addition to routine police work, manning checkpoints, and other anti-terrorist activity, two more areas have been added of late: dealing with anti-Arab “Price Tag” activities – billed as a response to increased enforcement against Jews – and escorting Civil Administration inspectors as they attempt to enforce the construction freeze in the Jewish towns.
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