Israel says to build 400 units in response to ‘stabbing attack’

Israel’s minister for military affairs says Tel Aviv will build 400 settler units in the Adam settlement, also known as Geva Binyamin, in response to a recent alleged stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank.

“The best answer to terror is the momentum of settlement in Judea and Samaria (West Bank),” Avigdor Lieberman wrote on his Twitter account Friday morning.

He added, “That’s why I left this morning to promote a plan to build 400 housing units in Adam and approve it in planning institutions in the coming week.”

Israeli media reported that a 31-year-old Israeli settler, identified as Yotam Ovadia, was stabbed and killed in an attack in the Adam settlement on Thursday. Two more settlers were also wounded during the attack.

It came hours after Israeli tank and artillery fire in the southeast of the Gaza Strip killed and injured three Hamas fighters.

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