The Yesha Council umbrella group of Judea and Samaria communities has launched a campaign calling on Israel’s government to extend sovereignty over the area to prevent another terrorist massacre.
As part of the campaign, the group, which represents some 500,000 Jews living in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley, released a video illustrating the danger posed by Palestinian terrorist organizations in the territory.
The minute-long clip depicts terrorists breaking through the security fence in northern Samaria with pick-up trucks and motorcycles and driving toward the Israeli city of Kfar Saba, abducting hostages to the Palestinian terror hub of Tulkarem, firing an RPG at Ben-Gurion Airport and attacking Israelis from Afula to Beersheva.
“It’s either Israeli sovereignty or the seventh of October in the center of the country.” the video states. “Judea and Samaria, the defensive shield of Israel,” the clip concludes.
Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria will serve as the protective defensive shield Israel has a legal right to rather than what the ill-informed see as it being a tool for Israel’s aggression. Sovereignty will help prevent Judea and Samaria from being used as a staging ground for future terror attacks. It does not seek to prevent not provoke conflict. When it comes to the application of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria there is no broader context in which to argue. The truth about sovereignty is straight forward.
AFSI prays that the Israeli government will find the will to declare sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley before France, the United Kingdom and any others recognize a Palestinian state next month. Israel has the biblical, historical and legal rights to its heartland and we fervently wish it will exercise these rights now.
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Yesha Council: Only Judea and Samaria sovereignty will stop next massacre, by JNS Staff/May 27, 2025