Ynet says incidents at roadblocks are up. Why? Because the fence is preventing most suicide attacks.
A 20-year-old Palestinian arrived Saturday morning at the 300 roadblock south of Jerusalem. Border Guard police officers searched him and discovered that he was carrying two ready-to-use improvised explosive devices, a plastic gun and a knitted hat.
The devices included explosives and nails.
[…] On Thursday, 20-year-old Sergeant Nir Kahane was stabbed to death while standing at the Kalandiya roadblock north of Jerusalem. A terrorist, who arrived at the roadblock in the afternoon, pulled out a knife and stabbed Kahane while he was conducting a security check.
On Friday, an IDF soldier thwarted a stabbing attempt on Hebron’s worshippers’ route. A 17-year-old Palestinian girl arrived at the area and pulled a knife out of her coat in front of the soldiers.
She approached a soldier and tried to stab him, but he pointed his weapon at the girl and overpowered her.
[…] Also Friday, a 15-year-old Palestinian was caught at the Hawara checkpoint, south of Nablus, in possession of two pipe bombs.
[…] In another incident early Saturday, an IDF navy boat identified two Palestinians swimming from Egypt toward the Gaza Strip. The soldiers ordered the Palestinians to stop. Simultaneously, the boat was fired at from the Gaza Strip shore.
The fact that all of these attacks and attempted attacks happened indicates that the security fence is working very well, indeed.
No wonder the palestinians and the Muslim/Arab world want it down. It’s stopping them from murdering Jews.
In all of these incidents, the terrorists were stopped long before they got near the fence, so how do they indicate that the fence is working? As Aaron Lerner recently pointed out , “The fence hasn’t stopped terror – Israeli security operations inside the West Bank have.”
Yes, because they couldn’t get past the fence. That’s what I meant.
I know it’s not perfect, but I think it’s helping a lot.
I disagree with you Meryl. The fence is not complete, so all it does is slow some terrorists down – by having to travel around it.
The targeted assasinations of terror heads and the IDF soldiers going into Jenin and Schem (Nablus) and killing/capturing the terrorists before they set out is what is decreasing the number of terrorist attacks.