Israel Bolsters Security Amid Deadliest Wave of Terrorist Attacks in Years
The Army and the police scaled up their ground presence the morning after the latest shooting brought the death toll from attacks in Israel this month to 11.
By Patrick Kingsley
March 30, 2022, 4:27 a.m. ET
BNEI BRAK, Israel Israel security forces bolstered their presence across the country and the occupied territories early Wednesday, the morning after a Palestinian gunman killed five people in the fifth attack in less than two weeks.
The recent surge in violence and fears of even more attacks prompted the Army to send reinforcements to the occupied West Bank, where the gunman behind Tuesday nights attack lived. Forces also deployed along the boundary between Israel and Gaza. The police said they were turning their focus almost exclusively to counterterrorism operations while scaling up their presence on the streets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/world/middleeast/israel-terrorism-attack.html