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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: August 20, 2007 |
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The Israeli Defense Forces is to install electronic surveillance and other security devices in at least 10 primary hitchhiker stops that settlers use in the West Bank.
"We will be able to have the response time that we have been lacking during kidnappings," a military source said yesterday, according to Haaretz. "We will be able to respond quickly, set up roadblocks, chase [perpetrators] and alert the whole area. At this time, we do not have this capability," he added.
The IDF decided to step up measures to protect Israeli citizens in the West Bank as a response to its general concern for the safety of Israelis in the territories. Unsuspecting hitchhikers are "soft targets" for militants who are otherwise prevented from carrying out more large-scale terrorist attacks by the security fence and other such measures.
"They recognize the kind of trauma that Israel experiences in cases of a kidnapping, and they are interested in having something to exchange for Palestinians held in prisons," a senior officer said yesterday, elaborating on the militants' motivation.
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