The same threats that were allowed to fester for years in Gaza are bubbling up in Judea and Samaria, Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, told the U.N. Security Council on Monday. Danon added that it is time to move beyond the “speeches, theater and spectacle” of last week’s General Assembly and “face reality.”
The Israeli envoy compared the assembly of rockets in small workshops in Judea and Samaria to methods that Hamas has used in Gaza. One workshop was found in Tulkarem, some 15 miles from Netanya on Israel’s coast—about the distance between central London and Heathrow Airport.
“These are not far-off threats,” Danon told the council. “They are weapons built within minutes of Israeli towns and cities. Hidden workshops of death, right on our doorstep.” Danon refuted French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement last week that Hamas doesn’t exist in Judea and Samaria. “Better check again,” he said.
Hamas claimed responsibility for killing six Israelis in a terror attack at a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem, and the Israeli military found Hamas infrastructure in Judea and Samaria and seized weapons that Iran shipped to Jenin, the envoy said. (Read More)
