Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara on Thursday traveled to the yishuv of Har Bracha to pay a shiva visit to the Yaniv family, whose two sons, h’yd, were murdered in a terror attack in Huwara on Sunday.

Netanyahu told the bereaved mother: “You speak from your heart’s blood. Eretz Yisrael is acquired with suffering, there’s no greater suffering than this.”

“This abominable murder – if they could they would kill us all, until the last one. They want to uproot us from our homeland. We need to deepen our roots, our settlement, and ultimately, this is a battle we will win. Look at what was here 50 years ago and what we have here today. What you went through in Gush Katif – we have to do the opposite, not to uproot but to build.”

The father of the kedoshim said to Netanyahu: “We need your support in Har Bracha, in the Shomron. If there’s something that will comfort us that our sons didn’t fall in vain, it will be to see that Eretz Yisrael is truly being built.”

The sister of the kedoshim asked Netanyahu to take action in matters of security: “I live here and I’ll continue to live here no matter what. We’ll continue to drive but we only ask to drive safely. Arabs threw stones at me three times this month. It’s impossible to continue like this. Why are so many families victims of terror? Something must be done here. We have a wonderful community here who drive every day through Huwara [Route 60, a main road, passes through the town]. We’ll continue to drive through it because it’s our road but we need deterrence. I’m crying out from my heart. This situation can’t continue, it’s impossible. It’s the blood my brothers, of all of Am Yisrael.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)