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August 27 2009
JN
ossi Klavan saw the rocks
coming.
"Get down," he told the
passenger in his car last week as
he hunched behind the wheel, try-
ing to steer beyond the range of
Palestinian stone throwers who
had already pelted the bus ahead of
them.
Immediately he heard a large
thud, as a rock crashed into the side
window. The window, made of rein-
forced plastic, did not shatter. Two
more rocks hit the side of the car,
causing damage but no injury.
Klavan, 41, had been en route
from his job at a high-tech firm in
Jerusalem to his home in the West
Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron,
about 11 miles from Nablus.
"It's around the clock," said
Klavan, a member of the security
committee at Karnei Shomron, who
said his area has seen an increase
in roadside incidents against Israeli
cars.
Klavan found out later that just
20 minutes before his car was hit
by rocks, there had been reports of
numerous Molotov cocktails being
thrown in the same area.
Near the settlement of Ofra,
outside Ramallah, the largest
Palestinian city in the West Bank,
there had been shooting attack ear-
lier this month.
"One of the signs that people are
getting worried again is that they
are putting in reinforcements in
their cars," said Ruchi Avital, an Ofra
spokeswoman, referring to rein-
forced windshields. "There is a sense
that there is a rise" in incidents.
Overall, however, such attacks
on West Bank roads have dropped
recently and in the past year, accord-
ing to security officials working
for the Yesha Council, the umbrella
organization of Jewish settlements
in the West Bank.
Ongoing Threat
But settlers say that such incidents,
including sporadic infiltrations of
their settlements, are a reminder of
what they view as an ongoing threat
of violence that is part of their daily
lives.
"In general, the security situation
has greatly improved," said Shlomo
Oiknine, the Yesha Council's chief
security officer. "But on the other
hand, because of the incidents we
have seen this year, we need to be
prepared for all possible scenarios."
Regarding the violence on the
roads, he said, "There are fewer inci-
dents and the perpetrators are being
caught more often than in the past."