The killing of an Israeli soldier .. The occupation intensifies its actions in the West Bank and the factions bless the process

Atef Daghlas-Nablus

The Israeli occupation forces have closed most of the roads in the vicinity of the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the southern West Bank after finding the body of the Israeli soldier Dvir Sorek, who was stabbed to death yesterday after being kidnapped by Palestinian resistance fighters, according to the Israeli occupation authorities.

According to Palestinian press sources and witnesses - through their pages in the communication sites - that the Israeli soldiers deployed heavily in the vicinity of that area, and set up several flying checkpoints (temporary) and began searches for the place and passing Palestinian vehicles that blocked their passage.

The Israeli army also tightened its procedures in the northern areas of the West Bank, and citizens observed heavy movement of military vehicles, especially in the streets through which settlers travel.

Storm and search
Ali Thawabteh, the mayor of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, said that Israeli soldiers raided Beit Fajjar and broke into shops and commercial establishments.

Thawabteh said in a telephone call to the island Net - that the soldiers who blocked roads inside the town, also blocked its main entrance, before they began to search for the cameras of shops, and saws stone (factories), which were fully searched for people hiding in it.

In the north of the West Bank, Israeli soldiers erected roadblocks in the vicinity of Shavei Shomron settlement north of Nablus and stressed their measures at Za'tara and Huwara checkpoints south of the city. Arroub, Halhul and surrounding areas.

The agency quoted eyewitnesses that the occupation erected several military checkpoints, and stopped citizens vehicles and check their identities.

The Jerusalem News Network quoted Israeli sources as saying that the army decided after the killing of the soldier to send more troops to the West Bank, and claimed the occupation army radio that Palestinian security sources participated in the search for a car carrying out the stabbing.

Blessed factions
Politically, Palestinian factions blessed the killing of the soldier while living in a settlement, while other factions have remained silent until the moment, and described the Islamic Jihad movement "heroic and daring" and said in a statement that it "carry important messages in light of the strike of prisoners held in administrative jails of the occupation."

The movement said that the operation is a natural reaction to the crimes of the occupation against the Palestinian people, the latest demolitions in the valley of Homs south of occupied Jerusalem, and stressed "Jihad" that all the settlers and soldiers of occupation "a legitimate target of the Palestinian resistance."

The Popular Resistance Committees in the killing of the soldier "the best response to the Zionist aggression, an affirmation of the failure of the Zionist security system, and that the resistance of our people can not break."

Second operation
The abduction and killing of the soldier, the second most prominent killing of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank after the killing of martyr Omar Abu Leila officer and rabbi late last March at the settlement of Israel north of the city of Salfit in the northern West Bank.

Palestinian militants have kidnapped and killed three settlers near the Gush Etzion settlement bloc between Bethlehem and Hebron in 2014.