Ya’alon: Terror Groups ’Would Attack Us If They Could’

Local Editor

War Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Tuesday that if terror groups could carry out terror attacks, they would do so, and he warned that "it may still happen."

Ya'alon conducted a tour of the occupied West Bank during which he was briefed by regional commanders.

While addressing soldiers of the brigade, Ya'alon stated that "There is motivation to carry out terror attacks, it exists here..."

He added that the reality of life in the besieged West Bank "is complicated" stressing that he terror attacks "do not contribute to the atmosphere remaining stable".

He further mentioned that the terror attack in Duma where the "...firebombing that now already killed two people, a father and a baby..." is one of the situations that contribute to destabilization.

"We are still in the middle of a wave of retaliations for the terror attack in Duma...," Ya'alon said. "It's not that there were no terror attacks before that."
"...This is why you have to remain alert," Ya'alon advised settlers in the Zionist entity.

In fact, Ya'alon was a target of a political attack during his visit; a target from the "Israeli" far right.
Activist and former Knesset hopeful Baruch Marzel attacked Ya'alon's car during the latter's visit to the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

"Enemy of the settlements, minister without security..." Marzel reportedly shouted at Ya'alon, making a pun of Ya'alon's title [defense and security are synonymous in Hebrew.]

Ya'alon wasn't injured and Marzel wasn't arrested.

Marzel, a Boston-born Zionist extremist, is a resident of Tel Rumeida, an "Israeli" settlement located in the heart of Hebron overlooking the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

Marzel's attack was presumably a reaction to Ya'alon's approval last week of the use of administrative detention against radical Zionist activists.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team