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From the beginning of 2025, zero Palestinians were killed by settlers — every fatal incident was IDF fire. So why does the world hear "settler violence?” Winner exposes the well-financed, well-covered media campaign using edited films that show only one side of every collision — a narrative he was forced to answer for in meetings with U.S. Senators and Congressmen.
In yesterday’s briefing, Brigadier General Res. Erez Winner, chairman of IDSF, reveals what Shin Bet chief David Zini told him directly: the inner circle is just 70-100 young rebels, most not even residents of Judea and Samaria.
He also reveals what happens next: how Shin Bet now detains these young extremists for months without judge or trial — measures previously reserved for active Arab terrorists — why they have no rabbi and rebel against every authority, and why IDF combat motivation is SURGING despite the war.
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Tuesday, September 01, 2026
Re: IDF Teens Arrested?
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Why are "violent kids throwing random Molotov Cocktails" .... getting released when they finally see a judge?
On what basis were they arrested to begin with? No Habeas Corpus? Why are they held for months with no proof of wrongdoing?
Maybe, indeed, they were released because there was no evidence of any wrongdoing?
Who are these 70-100 teens????
Oh you can't say because they are minors?
It is easy to put the blame on kids you can not name without any evidence, and say they are guilty, but bring no charges, based on the say so of Shabak and the Division of "Jewish Terror".
Please ask Elisha Yered and Elchonon Gruner who these kids are and please show real evidence and proof of wrongdoing. These kids seem to have come out of thin air.
Mitnachalim do not attack innocent Arabs. They are G-d fearing. They are shepherds and farmers who want to reSettle our Ancient Biblical Homeland. They are kids and lots of wholesome families.
However, Jews believe that when someone comes to Kill you, you need to preempt. Self Defense is a basic human right.
Please end feeding blood libels against innocent teens. This serves to reflect negatively on the Mitnachalim.
One can not help but conclude that is precisely why Shabak and the IDF are blaming 70-100 random teens. It serves to further a political agenda, and further the false narrative of "Settler Violence" be it teens, or shmeens.
Please address the 4 points raised by Avi Abelow.
Thank you for your consideration.
We know from Parshat Duma in 2015 that a "fringe group" were condemned across the board, before any investigation to speak of, within days based on the say so of Shabak and Hebrew Graffiti found at the scene. Hilltop Maccabees were blood libeled, their basic civil rights taken from them, 2 were tortured until they confessed to the Duma arson. Minor A tried to commit suicide. They were the scapegoats of a political agenda that needed to have on record statistics of "Settler Violence" to satisfy hostile mainstream media to further the establishment of a Palestinian State.
Ten years later, now close to 11 years, Amiram Ben Uliel, an innocent man with a wife and a child is still sitting in jail. His incarceration for many years was isolation. He had worse conditions that the worst Arab Terrorist, based on his false confession following torture with no other evidence.
Why should the public trust Shabak and their version of accusations against random teens?
The People now demand Evidence of wrongdoing!
Don't frame innocent people for a political agenda.
Pursue Justice. Remember that there is a G-d who Judges us up in Heaven.
Why are you accepting the lies Fatah, albeit American Citizens are feeding Congress and why aren't you showing any real evidence of wrongdoing from these 70-100 teens?
Perhaps because there is no real evidence and such exposure will incriminate the IDF for not deterring Arab terror and the Shabak for feeding a false narrative to satisfy a political agenda.
Avi Abelow: Qusra "Settler Violence" the Truth Behind the False Narrative in the News. Four Serious Voids of the GOI. Hilltop Maccabbees are Filling the Voids. Please share!
On Tue, Sep 1, 2026, 6:04 PM Moshe Davis <moshe@idsf.org.il> wrote:
Moshe Feiglin: This is Not a Language of Victory
Moshe Feiglin: This is not the Language of Victory
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*Moshe Feiglin: This is not the language of Victory:*
This morning I read reports that "the military leadership is preparing for a phased takeover of Gaza City"—and once again I hear the same technocratic, empty, and lifeless language.
Almost three years after the most horrific massacre in our history, the top military and political leadership continues to behave not like the leaders of a healthy nation, but like pest control contractors: they are preparing...
They are not conquering. They are "Weighing their options." Planning. Evacuating the population to "Humanitarian zones." Disarming.
"Dismantling infrastructure," "Reducing combat potential," "Humanitarian zones"—this is not the language of Victory. It is a sterile language born of fear of decisive action.
Is Hamas rebuilding its strength? Of course! After all, the enemy is not only Hamas.
The enemy is the Arabs of Gaza, the same Gaza that killed, raped, burned, and took hostages. And yet Gaza remains: it receives aid, rebuilds, strengthens, and awaits the next round of confrontation.
Anyone who believes they can enter Gaza and, risking the lives of our best sons, "cleanse" the weapons depots and then hand over control to a "Peace Council," the Americans, or some version of the Palestinian Authority, is bringing about a new October 7th with their own hands.
*"Disarmament," "Dismantling infrastructure," "Damaging capabilities," "Humanitarian zones"—this is not the language of Victory. It is the outdated language of fear of defeat.*
No terrorist organization "disarms" itself through diplomatic means. The enemy does not surrender as long as it retains hope, territory, and the population that supports it.
*This war is not against "terrorist infrastructure." This is a war for our Sovereignty, our Land, and our Identity!*
*Gaza is a Jewish city on the West Bank of the Negev. Those who murdered our sons have lost every right to even a grain of this territory.*
And our heroic soldiers, who fought for three years on all fronts, deserve Victory.
The people of Israel deserve Victory.
*Our soldiers are not cannon fodder for endless wars. Those who sacrifice our sons and do not end the war with the complete defeat of the enemy are wasting the blood of their people. They demonstrate our weakness to all our enemies.*
*If the Jewish people want to survive, they have no choice: they must defeat the enemy. Not control him. Not contain him, but crush him!*
Conquer our Land. Drive out the enemy. Repopulate it. Only then will the hostile countries around us understand that Israel is not prey. Those who do not end this war with Victory will bring the next one upon themselves.
*It's time to stop managing the conflict, stop relying on foreign plans, and start making decisions based on national pride and faith in the righteousness of our path.*
*Victory is just three words:*
*CONQUEST*
*EXPULSION*
*SETTLEMENT*
*Either we Conquer the entire Gaza Strip, encourage the enemy to emigrate, and establish Jewish Settlements there—or the next massacre will befall our children. (Chas veShalom) There is no middle ground. No "Disarmament." It's either Victory—or another October 7th.*
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Monday, August 31, 2026
Avi Abelow: Qusra "Settler Violence" the Truth Behind the False Narrative in the News. Four Serious Voids of the GOI. Hilltop Maccabbees are Filling the Voids. Please share!
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PS I am sharing Avi Abelow's actual text to these links because FB links are often not reliable:
If the above links don't work, search for Avi Abelow on fb and hopefully you will find it. But the above links when shared often don't link to his post and the text which is copied and pasted below.
Avi brings out 4 important voids that the Hilltop Maccabees are filling..
To Summarize:
1. The IDF is not doing its job by not deterring Arab terrorists
2. the Arabs are engaged in illegal strategic Land Grab and the GOI, Government of Israel, is not addressing it
3. US Citizenship in Arab villages is being used as a weapon against Israel with a well polished lobby in Congress to support Arab Terror and pushing for a Palestinian State and the GOI is playing along.
4. The GOI acts as if the PA is a "Partner in Peace" yet the PA has a trained army of over 60,000 ready to attack Israel, another October 7 waiting to happen Chas VeShalom, and this security force is given legitimacy under the Oslo Accords.
The Good News is that there are Hilltop Maccabees to the rescue!!!
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Avi Abelow post on FB:
This weekend the jihadi village of Qusra was back in the news. The framing was familiar: Jews accused of violence. “Settler extremists.” The usual script. Again.
Remember, I spoke about this issue last week as well, calling out those who were despicably calling Jews “terrorists” for retaliating against jihadi evil.
Now let’s look even closer at what’s going on.
The jihadis attacked Jews, again. Then Jews retaliated, again. And the media blames Jews for violence, again. That sequence is not a detail. It is the whole story the media refuses to tell. And our leaders, even the governments spokesperson doesn’t tell.
And even that is not the real story. There are four bigger stories almost nobody is talking about.
#1. These young Jews are filling a vacuum the army left open.
Jewish retaliation in places like Qusra is not the first choice of a healthy nation. It is what happens when the IDF fails at its real job: making the enemy afraid to attack Jews in the first place.
Stop the attacks *before* they happen — because this is a jihadi population. The army does not do that. It steps in only after a terror attack, or when intelligence flags a specific planned attack. Too late, or too narrow. It ignores the central fact: the jihadi population of Judea and Samaria as a whole is the enemy, and it must be stopped and deterred before it attacks innocent Jews.
People hear “the strongest army in the Middle East” and assume the streets of jihadi towns in Judea and Samaria are filled with fear of that army. They are not. The restrictive rules of engagement taught the jihadi population in Judea and Samaria a different lesson. Attack Jews, and the IDF and Israeli government system will often treat the Jewish response as the scandal.
So no, it is not normal that ordinary Jews, including hilltop youth, should have to step in and make the enemy pay a price. That is the state’s job. Until the army treats the jihadi population as an enemy population and puts real deterrence into those villages, do not be shocked when Jews who live under fire refuse to be sitting ducks. They are reacting the way any normal person should act when the authorities and the army are dropping the ball.
#2. This is a war over land and the Palestinain authority has been winning it for 30 years.
There is a systematic struggle for empty land in Judea and Samaria, and there is a lot of empty land. The Palestinian Authority, backed by European Union money, has been spreading illegal construction throughout Judea and Samaria, including onto strategic mountain tops. For three decades the army largely watched.
Hilltop youth and young families have set up outposts and farms to stop this illegal land takeover to protect the Jewish population, because finally someone had to.
Returning to this specific incident, The house outside Qusra was not a random home. It was built specifically on a strategic mountain overlooking Jewish communities and the roads they travel. Leaving an illegally built outpost like that in place is not “coexistence.” It is a security failure. The Palestinian authority allowed the family to build the house there to terrorize the Jews below. Whoever holds that ridge holds eyes on all the Jewish life below.
#3. U.S. citizenship has become a weapon against Israel
The builder of that house has U.S. citizenship. His family has used that passport to pull in the U.S. embassy and the American government. This is a fairly new and very deliberate strategy: turn every local clash into an international incident, with US involvement, and squeeze Israeli policy in Judea and Samaria through pressure from Washington, even though Trump and US Akbassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, are very supportive of Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria.
Netanyahu’s official government response has been to issue public apologies about “the occurrences” instead of standing up and saying the truth out loud: jihadi violence, illegal jihadi building on strategic land that endangers Jewish lives, and the cynical abuse of U.S. citizenship to manipulate American policy.
Friends of Israel in America cannot defend us if our own leadership keeps feeding them the other side’s framing.
#4. The Palestinian Authority is not a peace partner. It is an army in waiting.
The Palestinian authority fields more than 60,000 armed, militarily trained men, trained by U.S. military experts. That is not a municipal police force. That is a standing threat, trained, paid, and positioned for the day they decide to invade Israeli communities and attempt an October 7 on a far larger scale.
Hamas sent a few thousand armed jihadis across the fence on October 7. The PA force is more than 60,000!
And Israel still performs on the world stage as if the Palestinian Authority is a “partner for peace.” That is a huge mistake. Partners for peace do not build an army next to Jewish towns while teaching the next massacre as destiny.
The only way Israelis will be safe from this threat is if Israel stops pretending. Announce to the world that the Palestinian Authority is an enemy. Disarm and dismantle its army and police force before they attack, and expel all the jihadist, not after they attack. Waiting for the first strike, after October 7, is not caution. It is denial that is a death sentence for many Jews.
Qusra is not a story about a few angry young Jews on a hill.
It is a story about an army that will not deter, a land war we refuse to name, a foreign-passport strategy we apologize for instead of exposing, and a 60,000-man force we still treat as a diplomatic prop.
The headlines will keep blaming Jews.
The reality is that Jews are reacting to a vacuum created by leaders who still will not call the enemy the enemy.
Until that changes, the hills will keep filling with the people willing to hold them.
And that is the good news.
After three decades of the disastrous Oslo peace plan that has endangered our lives, we finally have a generation willing to put their own lives on the line in the hills of Judea and Samaria, filling in for an army that has been neutered from its purpose: protecting Jewish life.
These youth and young families live alone on hilltops. They shepherd sheep and goats on barren land. They are attacked constantly by our jihadi neighbors. None of that gets reported in the news. Regardless, They do not run. More and more of them keep coming, and more hilltops keep filling. It is unbelievable.
Unfortunately, we see how the political and Jewish leadership around the world does not back them. Instead they are being thrown them under the bus, as if they are the problem. The good news, this young generation does not care.
That is the beautiful thing. We have a generation that has woken up. They are doing what the Jewish people are meant to do: bring goodness and holiness to God’s holy land, and stop the spread of jihadi evil, even when our own leaders and army, despite all the good they do, still fall short.
Hopefully soon the authorities and the army will finally act as they are supposed to act, so these hilltop youth and young families can live normal lives, knowing the army is finally actually deterring an enemy jihadi population so that all of our lives can be safe.
We are not there yet. That is frustrating. But every day we are getting closer.
Stick with me at the pulse of Israel for the true, full story.
Strengthen your faith.
Am Yisrael chai!!!
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Elisha Yered: “Siege” and the vile blood libels we’ve been seeing in recent weeks have one purpose: to bring about an Arab takeover of Jabal Ein Einah — the second-highest mountain in Samaria. Review of the ten highest mountains and ridges in Judea and Samaria.
News & Commentary, Elisha Yered, Resettlement Activist
*Let it be clear to you: all the campaigns about a “siege” and the vile blood libels we’ve been seeing in recent weeks have one purpose: to bring about an Arab takeover of Jabal Ein Einah — the second-highest mountain in Samaria and the tenth-highest in all of Judea and Samaria.*
*These are not random incidents, but part of an organized plan by PA minister Walid Assaf to seize the high control strongholds in Judea and Samaria.*
*To understand what is really happening here, I wrote at length this week about this dangerous plan that everyone must know.*
Read and share 👇
https://www.okn.co.il/opinions/58628/
*Let it be clear to you: all the campaigns about a “siege” and the vile blood libels we’ve been seeing in recent weeks have one purpose: to bring about an Arab takeover of Jabal Ein Einah — the second-highest mountain in Samaria and the tenth-highest in all of Judea and Samaria.*
*These are not random incidents, but part of an organized plan by PA minister Walid Assaf to seize the high control strongholds in Judea and Samaria.*
*To understand what is really happening here, I wrote at length this week about this dangerous plan that everyone must know.*
Read and share 👇
https://www.okn.co.il/opinions/58628/
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Full English translation of Elisha's article below with the help of Google.
It includes a very educational review of the ten strategic highest mountains and ridges in Judea and Samaria.
He Who Controls the Mountain Will Control the Land: The PA's Dangerous Plan to Conquer the Strongholds in Judea and Samaria | Elisha Yared
The recent storm surrounding the Jewish presence at Tel Talpiot has revealed a little of the fierce battle that has been going on for the past decade on the mountaintops in Judea and Samaria. After the PA operated effectively within the framework of a strategic plan, the Jews have recently begun to fight back. Also: What are the important strongholds of control, and how many of them are still in the hands of the enemy. Part 1 of a special project of Olam Katan.
Elisha Yared
14th of Elul 5776 – 27/08/2026
Unlike other ministers in the Palestinian Authority, Walid Assaf knew the campaign on the open areas not only from an air-conditioned room. He did not grow up in the shiny corridors of a government building in Ramallah but came from the field, straight from long years in an Israeli prison for terrorist acts.
The combination he possessed, between organizational ability, broad strategic vision and fighting shoulder to shoulder, earned him the coveted position: Minister for the Struggle against Settlements and the Fence.
The mission of the ministry that stood at its head was exactly what its name suggests: a struggle, even violent if necessary, against Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria, to restrict its steps and ensure that a Palestinian state would be established in its place. During the heyday of the Palestinian Authority, Assaf unexpectedly announced one day a new strategic plan that was being launched. At the end of 2020, the activity of the Committee to Combat Settlements, headed by Assaf, reached a new peak.
The pioneering settlement was just beginning to awaken and fight back when the Palestinian Authority had already concluded 11 years of activity under the Fayyad plan.
Within a few months, the committee (headed by Assaf) initiated dozens of violent riots against newly established farms and hills, organized violent provocations during the harvest, and conducted a series of lightning operations to take over and establish facts on the ground in Arab outposts at strategic points. The violent pattern of action of Assaf and his activists was regular and predictable, but no one was arrested.
Walid Assaf (right), photo: uncredited
Assaf, dissatisfied with the list of achievements he had garnered in the campaign in the open areas, decided to leap to the next ambitious goal. With the field coordinators in his office, most of whom were also released terrorists, the Palestinian minister drew up a plan that set the goal of conquering the high mountain peaks in Judea and Samaria.
The strategy of the plan was simple: a presence in the open area is a nice thing, but whoever seizes control of these high strongholds will control everything at the moment of truth.
PA launches plan to conquer 17 mountain peaks in Judea and Samaria
The plan was given the deceptively innocent name "National Campaign for the Protection of Mountain Peaks." Protection from whom? From the Settlers, of course. At the launch of the campaign, which was held on Mount Ebal, Assaf announced that the plan would initially include 17 mountain peaks throughout Judea and Samaria. The plan began operating immediately, and did not just include declarations and conferences. The goal was to conquer the peaks as quickly as possible.
Infrastructure, intensive construction and extensive Arab development in Jebel Ein Eina as part of the PA plan to conquer the mountain peaks, photo: Uncredited
With the village councils, the PA began to make the mountain ranges accessible to the Arab presence. Dirt roads were broken up and paved with limestone and asphalt in a short time, water and electricity infrastructures were established, and Assaf's office moved on to determining facts on the ground. Hundreds of olive trees were planted on the slopes of the mountains in events with many participants. A few days of tractor work, a day of planting with dozens of activists, and you can mark the V on the seizure of a huge area with little investment.
After the planting came construction, which gradually grew like mushrooms after the rain.
Within a few years, dominant ridges that were once rocky mountains were seized and became a front extension of the nearby village. The PA developed the infrastructure, subsidized costs, donated building materials, and the Arabs of the region for their part were quick to pounce on the find. To understand even a little bit what goals the Palestinian Authority has marked, where the battle is really going on these days, and what assets we could lose at any moment, this week we will conduct a partial introduction to the strongholds of control in Judea and Samaria.
Mountaintops
The height of a mountain above sea level is undoubtedly one of the key elements that make it a vital stronghold of control, but it is not always the highest mountains that are first on the list of desired points. It all depends on the space around each point. If the mountain is much higher than its neighbors, it will automatically become a central control point. Nevertheless, in the context of most of these places, this perimeter provides a great advantage and in this week we will open with a review of the ten highest mountains and ridges in Judea and Samaria.
Halhul Ridge
Highest point: Nebi Yunis, Beit Anut, 1,024 m. The ridge dominates Highway 60, which leads to Hebron, and overlooks the settlement of Karmei Tzur and the center of Gush Etzion. For years, the Palestinian Authority worked to seize the mountain peaks there, and even built houses and extensive agriculture on its slopes and avenues with the Arabs of the villages.
גבעת תל תלפיות בפסגת ג'בל עין עינה, צילום: ללא קרדיט
Tel Talpiot Hill at the summit of Jebel Ein Eina, photo: Uncredited
After nearly two decades of struggle waged by the Nachala Movement and residents of the area, the settlement point of Ma'alat Halhul was established on the ridge about a year ago, and was later officially approved to become a permanent settlement. The settlement was established on one of the peaks at the top of the ridge, but not at its highest point. One of the peaks is now dominated by Givat Beit Anut, which was later established by grazing sheep, and the other peak is located above the Tzomet Zechuchit junction and is still under Arab control.
A choke ring of Arab construction within touching distance of the Baal Hazor Ridge
Baal Hazor Ridge
Highest point: Tel al-Azur, 1,016 m. The ridge dominates the communities of Ofra and Kochav HaShahar, and overlooks virtually all the mountains in Judea and Samaria, from Samaria to Gush Etzion. For years it was completely abandoned except for a sensitive and strategic air control base, which was gradually surrounded by a choke ring of Arab construction that climbed to within touching distance of it. In recent years, the ridge has been filled with farms and hills that are cracking the Arab choke ring, but much work still remains.
One shoulder of the ridge, which rises to a height of 940 meters and is located near the village of Mazraa a-Sharqiya, still remains abandoned and poses a serious security danger. An area of massive Arab construction and non-stop development work. About two years ago, an Arab sniper stood on the mountain, which is absurdly designated as Area B despite being a clear observation post on Route 60, and fired accurately from his weapon, hitting a Border Police officer who was standing 800 meters away.
View from the Chesed LeAvraham Farm on Mount Hazor – south of the settlement of Ofra, photo: Uncredited
Miraculously, the policewoman only suffered moderate injuries, but the force was unable to eliminate the terrorist, and he fled the scene. In recent months, the Tzur Levavi Farm, located in Wadi Haramiya, has opened a summer shepherds' camp at the foot of the ridge, and has been advancing daily with the flock to the mountain to guard the strategic point. Despite their tremendous security contribution, this week, the commander of the Judea and Samaria Division, Kobi Heller, sent Border Guard forces to destroy the camp and confiscate the flock. As of this moment, the shepherds refuse to give up, and the struggle for control of the mountain continues.
Seir-Kuziba Ridge
Highest point: Ras Tawara, 1,012 m. The ridge lies east of the Halhul Ridge, consists of several peaks that are designated Area B and is currently under full Arab control. The ancient settlements of Ziur and Kuziba were once located here. Bar Kochba, who was probably a native of the area, was given his first name Bar Koziba, after his place of residence.
Control of the ridge is essential for connecting the center of Gush Etzion with its east
Many springs flow from the mountain, from which the aqueduct that brought water to Jerusalem collected through tunnels and bridges. Control of the ridge is essential for connecting the center of Gush Etzion with its east, which are currently cut off from each other by a hostile Arab bloc.
Hebron-Kiryat Arba
Highest point: Givat Al-Harasina, Alef Ridge, and Givat Gal (Jabal Jalis), 1,008 m. The high points are inhabited by Jews, and are surrounded by dense Arab construction.
Neve Daniel–Elezer–Efrat
Highest point: Matzpor Alef, 996 m. The entire area is inhabited by Jews. Additional high points: Neve Daniel: 984 m, Sde Boaz: 956 m, Rosh Tzurim: 955 m.
First winter with a Jewish presence at the summit of Jebel Ein Eina
Mount Ebal
Highest point: 940 m. The top of the mountain is designated Area C, but its slopes almost to its peak are designated Areas B and A. For years, the Palestinian Authority has conducted numerous operations to establish control over the mountain, which remains empty of Jews except for a small military base at its top. The Arab struggle to seize the ridge included breaking into infrastructure, preparing agricultural areas, and numerous terrorist attacks against a Jewish farm that was established there and was eventually evacuated under pressure from the Palestinian Authority.
Recently, a Jewish settlement was established at its top, along with another settlement point on its eastern slopes, towards the Joshua Altar. On its other slopes, there is still a risk of Arab takeover or one that is already occurring.
Mount Gilo
Highest point: 927 m. At the top of the ridge, which is located in the northern part of Gush Etzion, there is a Jewish settlement, but it is surrounded by dense Arab construction from the village of Beit Jala.
Ma'on Ridge Reches Ma'on
Highest point: Ras a-Tawamin, 911 m. The ridge dominates the settlements of Ma'on, Susiya and Yatir. For years, the Arab Mor clan ruled the area, which was expelled after its members murdered Yair Har Sinai, the HY"d, but the IDF returned the area in a infuriating move. About three years ago, after a long campaign waged by settlement activists from the area, the Arab invaders were expelled again, and the mountain is now home to the Chavat Sdei Harel, which was established in memory of Harel Massoud, Hy"d.
Psagot–Beit El
Highest point: 909 m. There are Jewish settlements at both high points, but a significant portion of the area around them is still under Arab control.
Jabel Ein Eina
Highest point: 904 m. A strategic peak that sits on the seam between the Binyamin region and Samaria and dominates the Shiloh bloc to the south, the Givat haYovel in Eli to the west, the settlement of Magdalim to the east, and Rachelim and Eviatar to the north.
The mountain was designated Area B in the Oslo Accords despite its security importance. Due to its key point of regional control, the Palestinian Authority has made extensive efforts in recent years to capture it: building many houses, most of which are not populated. Clearing roads and infrastructure was built. About eight months ago, a Jewish settlement was established at the top of the mountain, which was named Tel Talpiot. Since its establishment, the hill has been subjected to a series of incessant Arab attacks, alongside attempts by the villages in the area to complete the chokepoint around the mountain and climb to its summit.
These days, the struggle for Jewish control of the mountain is at its peak. The media "storm" about the "Siege of Qusra", which burst into our lives in the last two weeks and managed to sweep away innocent Jews who fell into the trap, was the result of this tremendous effort on the part of the enemy, who had been formulating his plan for months.
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