Rachel Yaniv, the younger sister of Hillel and Yagel Yaniv, the two brothers who were murdered in a terrorist attack in the Arab village of Huwara on Sunday, spoke today (Thursday) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he came to pay a shiva visit to the family at their home in Har Bracha.
The 16-year-old bereaved sister told the Prime Minister: “We have no security.”
In a recording obtained by Channel 12 News, Rachel said that she had to be saved from three separate stone-throwing attacks recently.
“There are things that I haven’t spoken about before, I didn’t even tell my parents so as not to worry them, but I had stones thrown at me three times in one month. So many bereaved families come here and they strengthen me a lot, but why are there so many like us [who have lost loved ones]? These are amazing people who did not come here just once to comfort mourners or to inaugurate a new building, but people who live here every day. We drive through Huwara every day. This is our road. But there must be security, there must be deterrence,” she said.
She added: “Something must be done here, anything. I don’t know what. I’m not the prime minister and I don’t have solutions, but I’m crying out from the bottom of my heart over the blood of my brothers – this reality cannot continue. This is unacceptable. We are two bereaved families out of eight. It’s indescribable. It’s not only mine and my brothers’ blood, but the blood of the entire nation of Israel.”
“I will continue to live here, this is my country and my grandparents fought for this country and I deserve to drive on the roads here and I will continue to drive on them and I just want to drive on them safely,” Rachel declared.
Netanyahu replied to her: “You are truly speaking from the bottom of your heart. We made a series of decisions that I will not repeat here – despite international pressure – to strengthen the settlements.”

Netanyahu also told Esti Yaniv, the victims’ mother: You talk from the bottom of your heart the land of Israel is obtained through suffering there is no bigger suffering than this.”
Netanyahu added: “This heinous murder, if they only could, they would murder us all, until the last one, they want to uproot us from our homeland, we must deepen our roots, our settlement in the land, and in the end, we will win this battle. We will win.”
“Look what was here 50 years ago and what we have now. You were uprooted from Gush Katif (in the Gaza Strip). That wont’ happen again. On the contray, we will build,” concluded Netanyahu.