Following the funerals of the victims of yesterday’s murderous attack at Eli Junction on Route 60, numerous violent riots have broken out at several locations in Samaria.
Groups of Israeli youth are reported to have entered Palestinian cities and torched vehicles, shops, and homes, as well as burned agricultural areas in the surrounding countryside.
Roads in and out of the cities were blocked with boulders, building materials, and burning tires.
In some places, the residents of the cities clashed with the rioters, leading to numerous injuries from both parties. In the Palestinian city of Huwara in Samaria, an Israeli citizen was reported to have drawn and fired his handgun during a clash with local residents. In another location, an IDF soldier fired over the heads of Israeli demonstrators to disperse them.

The IDF reported that the Israeli citizens are being removed from the cities and that fire services are working to stop the blazes.
The mayor of Turmus Aya, a Palestinian Authority city approximately a kilometer from the scene of the attack, claims that a group of approximately one hundred fifty Israeli youths entered the city and burned sixty cars and thirty homes. An Israeli security source reported that only twenty cars and fifteen homes were damaged.
“These acts are disgusting. This is not increasing deterrence, it is damaging it,” the source claimed. “They are bringing more and more people into the circle of hate and vengeance, and every soldier that must be sent to stop the riots is another one that is not fighting terror. Citizens must not take the law into their hands. The IDF is working to restore order in the area.”
The source further stated that no one had been arrested, and all suspects had fled the scene.