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2022-03-31 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israel on high security, military alert after week of terror attacks; more raids and arrests
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[Jpost] Bennett: Whoever has a gun license, it’s time to carry the gun •
Volunteers called to reinforce army, police.
Israel plans to bolster its army and police presence in sensitive areas as it prepares for further terrorist attacks, including Gaza rockets, following a deadly spate of shooting and stabbing incidents that claimed 11 lives in the last week.
Some 1,000 additional IDF soldiers will be posted to the West Bank and the Gaza border. Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev announced the immediate recruitment of 300 Border Police officers and urged the public to volunteer for the Civil Guard.
According to media reports, there are at least five warnings for potential terrorist attacks in Israel.
In a special video address on Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged the country to be vigilant, called for civilian volunteers and urged those with gun licenses to be armed.
“Keep an eye open. Whoever has a gun license, it’s time to carry the gun,” Bennett said.
The unorganized militia. “We are also currently evaluating a larger framework to involve civilian volunteers who want to help and be of assistance,” Bennett said.
According to Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the defense establishment is prepared for the “immediate” recruitment of thousands of reservists who would “flood the streets together with the police and act wherever operational activity is required.”
Both men spoke one day after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli and two Ukrainian civilians as well as the policeman who responded to the attack.
The Palestinian gunmen, 27-year-old Dia Hamarsha, was later shot dead by a police officer who arrived at the scene on a motorcycle and engaged the shooter in a firefight. The officer, 32-year-old Arab Christian Amir Khouri, was evacuated to Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in critical condition and died from his wounds soon after, making him the fifth victim.
Two other ISIS-linked attacks by Arab-Israelis took place in Beersheba and Hadera in the last week, making it one of the bloodiest seven-day periods since the Second Intifada. Israel was already on edge, concerned that it would face a new wave of violence in April with the onset of the Passover, Ramadan and Easter holidays.
A new Border Police Brigade has been established as “an immediate response motorcycle unit; this is the force that eliminated the terrorist in Bnei Brak last night,” Bennett said.
Security forces have carried out 200 investigation or arrest operations and have mapped out the home of the Palestinian terrorist in the village of Yabad for demolition, he added.
Security forces are expediting the collection of illegal weapons in Arab communities and are reaching out to anyone with a “previous connection with ISIS.” Forces have been authorized to use administrative detentions if necessary, Bennett said.
WILL THE WEST BANK HEAT UP?
Overnight on Tuesday, Israeli security forces carried out a wave of arrests in the West Bank and mapped the home of the terrorist behind the deadly attack in Bnei Brak in preparation for its demolition.
Forces from the IDF, Shin Bet and Israel Police conducted a widespread arrest campaign throughout the West Bank in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, Bethlehem, Kedumim, Ramallah, Marda, Yabad and villages south of Bethlehem.
Clashes broke out between troops and Palestinians during the arrests.
Among those arrested was the brother of the attacker Hamarsha from the village of Yabad in the northern West Bank near Jenin. He was jailed for six months in 2015 for dealing in illegal firearms and affiliation with a terrorist group and had worked illegally at a Bnei Brak construction site.
At least 20 other people including other relatives were arrested in Yabad and interrogated as security services look into whether Hamarsha had any accomplices and how he came to be in possession of the M-16 rifle used in the attack.
The Israel Police said it had arrested 49 Palestinians who were in Israel illegally throughout the day on Wednesday and began criminal investigations against three business owners who employed them, and against drivers of four vehicles being used to transport them.
Gantz also ordered the administrative detention of two residents of east Jerusalem affiliated with Hamas on suspicion of planning violent activities. The arrests were carried out based on the Shin Bet’s recommendation and according to Gantz, “will not be the last.”
Bnei Brak terrorist entered Israel in stolen car through gap in security fence — TV
[IsraelTimes] The Palestinian terrorist who carried out the shooting attack in Bnei Brak Tuesday entered Israel by driving through a gap in the West Bank security barrier, according to Israeli television reports.
Good fences make good neighbours The networks say Diaa Hamarsheh switched out the license plates on the car and brought the M-16 used in the attack with him.
Channel 12 news reports that the security establishment is currently grappling with “significant” warnings of five planned terror attacks.
Bnei Brak terrorist served prison time for planning to carry out suicide bombing
[IsraelTimes] Diaa Hamarsheh previously served 2.5 years in prison for planning to take part in a suicide bombing. He previously served time in Israeli prison for membership in a terror group and weapons dealing.
According to Hebrew media reports, in 2011, Hamarsheh went on social media and asked members of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror groups to help him obtain an explosives belt. However, he was reportedly defrauded by an Islamic Jihad operative he was in touch with and never received the suicide belt he paid for.
He was later arrested and convicted as part of a plea deal.
Man arrested in Rahat on suspicion of affiliation with Islamic State
[IsraelTimes] An 18-year-old man from the southern city of Rahat has been arrested for alleged affiliation with the Islamic State jihadist group.
The suspect will be brought before a Beersheba court later today to extend his remand.
Requests for gun permits said to rise sharply amid recent attacks
[IsraelTimes] The number of requests for gun permits has risen drastically over the past week in the wake of three deadly terror attacks, Channel 13 news reports.
According to figures cited by the network, 143 people applied for gun permits on March 22, the day three people were killed in a stabbing and car-ramming attack in Beersheba.
On Sunday, the same day two coppers were rubbed out in the northern city of Hadera, 363 requests were filed.
That figure jumped drastically to 966 yesterday, when five people were killed in a shooting attack in Bnei Brak. 
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