A settlers' umbrella group has announced that it will unilaterally end the West Bank construction moratorium in response to the terrorist attack near Hebron.
The Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samara announced Wednesday that it would begin construction on several structures throughout the West Bank beginning at 6 p.m. -- the same time that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to be meeting with President Obama and just hours before the start of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
“This brutal attack again proved that despite what might be going on in Washington right now, the Palestinians have no goal to create a peaceful state for themselves but are entirely driven to destroy our state and our people,” said Naftali Bennett, director general of the Yesha Council.
“The only response that will show our resolve against terror is to commit ourselves to building, and effective Wednesday evening we will bring this senseless freeze to an immediate end," he said.
Among the structures to be built are a kindergarten in Kedumim in the northern West Bank, a sports center in Adam located near Jerusalem, and a private home in Beit Haggai in the Hebron Hills, where the victims lived.