Hundreds of Samaria residents protested near the Barkan Industrial Park on Tuesday and demanded the military proceed with its plan to raze the home of a terrorist who murdered two Israelis there last month.
On Oct. 7, Ashraf Walid Suleiman Naalwa, 23, a resident of the West Bank village of Shawika, murdered Kim Levengrond-Yehezkel, 28, and Ziv Hajbi, 35, and wounded Sara Vaturi, 54, all employees of the Alon Group, where the attacker was also previously employed.
Naalwa, who fled the scene, remains at large and is the subject of an ongoing military manhunt.
"IDF soldiers continue to spare no efforts to search for and apprehend the terrorist," The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said.
"We demand capital punishment for terrorist, it's a must," Levengrond-Yehezkel's father, Rafi, said.
Hajbi's brother, Tal, said that the IDF's plan to only demolish part of the Naalwa family home was absurd.
"His entire house must be razed to the ground and the family should be expelled. They [the Palestinians] have to understand that Jewish blood will not be spilled in vain," Tal said.
Also on Tuesday, hundreds of residents of Halamish, a Jewish community in the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, staged a protest over what they said was the military's failure to ensure their safety.
The residents said that in the past few months, Palestinian terrorism in Samaria has increased, particularly incidents involving Palestinians hurling rocks and firebombs at Israeli cars traveling through the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council.
They accused the military of doing nothing to counter the threat.
A military statement said that "every day, IDF soldiers work tirelessly to secure these roads and arrests terrorists."
