Rockets in Samaria: IDF arrests terror cell that manufactured rockets ready to be launched at Israel

Peloni:  As Israel is faced with more than two-thirds of European states recognizing the fictitious second Arab Palestinian state, all while ignoring the fact that Jordan is the indisputable Arab Palestinian state, rocket factories are being constructed in Judea and Samaria.  Our enemies have no conscience, no legitimacy, and no honor.  They would pillory the victims of October 7 to satisfy an enemy contingent which they have imported into their own communities, and that contingent is conducting a quiet Jihad of Europe as they will continue into the US, already with bridgeheads being constructed around America.  Jihad is not compatible with Western society, and in fact, while a kinetic war is being brought against Israel, Israel at least has demonstrated the wherewithal to replace complacency with confrontation.  National identity is an important concept to misplace, and while Europe represents an important contingent of the Western world, their leadership has chosen to remain quiescent as their identity is coopted by this quiet Jihad, and the move to embrace a second Arab Palestinian state is simply the personification of this lost identity, leaving only the European public to demonstrate the pluck and perseverance which is needed to ward off the malfeasance and devastation facing them today.  Israel will survive this war, if only because they are fighting it, but Europe has already chosen to be defeated as they refuse to do the same and are instead supporting those who will one day be their conquerors.

FM Sa’ar warns: ‘Without security control over Judea & Samaria, state will be in danger’

All Israel News Staff | Published: September 19, 2025

Rockets and weapons seized from a Palestinian terror cell during a raid in Samaria, Sept. 19, 2025. (Photo: IDF)

In a highly concerning development for Israel’s security, Israel Defense Forces announced on Friday that it had arrested a terror cell in Samaria that attempted to launch a rocket at Israel and had manufactured dozens more, including two that were ready for immediate use.

Last week, the cell attempted to launch a rocket at Israel from the village of Kafr Na’ima, but it landed in the nearby Palestinian village of Beit Ur a-Tahta, alerting Israeli authorities. It reportedly contained non-standard, improvised explosives, while another rocket was found without explosives.

Beit Ur a-Tahta lies due south of Kafr Na’ima, indicating the terrorists had planned to launch a rocket at the approaches to Jerusalem, roughly the area of Beit Shemesh and Highway 1, the main artery connecting the capital to the rest of the country.

On Friday morning, the IDF announced that the three members of the cell were arrested after a short exchange of fire during a joint operation with the Shin Bet and Israel’s Yamam anti-terror commando force.

“During the activity, the forces encircled the structure from which the suspects operated and fired toward it. Following the shooting, the three suspects exited the structure and were apprehended by the forces,” the IDF stated.

“In the structure, dozens of rockets, including two ready-to-launch rockets without warheads, explosives, and explosive materials, alongside findings linking them to the manufacturing and attempted launching of rockets, were located. Additionally, a rocket manufacturing workshop was located.”

Following the activity, Israeli forces dismantled the rockets and the explosives. The suspects were handed over to the Israel Security Agency for further questioning by the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence service that is also responsible for counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria (West Bank).

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar responded to the report by noting that “If Israel will not maintain security control over Judea and Samaria – the entire State of Israel will be in danger.”

“Despite its commitments, the PA is not fighting terrorism and continues its ‘Pay-to-Slay’ policy. This is further proof of the enormous danger in establishing a ‘Palestinian state’,” Sa’ar wrote on ?.

Just one day earlier, Sa’ar addressed the largest-ever delegation of U.S. lawmakers to visit Israel as they visited the “Balcony of the State” lookout in the settlement of Peduel, which lies east of Tel Aviv in central Samaria.

“The establishment of a Palestinian state here, on these surrounding hills – in this topography of hills and mountains you see – would turn the coastal plain, which constitutes most of Israel, into an easy target and would endanger Israel’s security,” Sa’ar told the lawmakers.

At the same meeting, Samaria Regional Council Head Yossi Dagan told the group, “We are here to stay – forever. Our presence and control over these mountains is not only historical justice – it is the security belt of the State of Israel.”

Despite several attempts to manufacture rockets in Judea and Samaria, or smuggle ready-to-launch rockets from Jordan, there has not been a successful attempt to launch rockets from the area at Israel so far.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, chairman of the Religious Zionism Party – the settlement movement’s main representative – said the production of weapons “is a direct result of the Arab hope to eliminate the State of Israel by establishing a terror state in the heart of the country.”

“Macron gives hope to terror – we must cut it off. Applying Israeli sovereignty, according to the plan I published and which received broad support, is the only way to ensure that a Palestinian state will not be established,” he added.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said he wasn’t surprised by this latest discovery of rockets.

“Just like in Gaza on the eve of October 7, where I was almost the only one warning against the prevailing conception, so it is in Judea and Samaria. The Palestinian Authority is a terrorist entity, training to carry out a “Oct. 7” in Judea and Samaria,” he charged.

“It pays salaries to those who murder Jews, educates in its schools to slaughter Jews, and incites in its media in support of terror. If we don’t dismantle it in time, we’ll wake up too late – just like we did in Gaza.”

September 19, 2025 | 4 Comments »

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  1. @EvRe1
    @liz44
    Thank you, and I regretfully have to agree with every word which you each write here.

    The West is under siege and it remains oblivious to its impending doom, as its leaders demonstrate a sense of euphoria about the train-wreck which they have set in place.

  2. @Peloni I think your essay was beautifully written. I am already beginning to mourn for the loss of Europe, European culture is to be replaced by Islam and there will be one failed state after another.

    In Islamic countries, for example in the Middle East, the people do not have histories of great art and music like is found in Europe, or if they do it is long forgotten.

    In Europe when the countries are overtaken by Islam the people will remember their shared histories of beautiful and magnificent architecture, art, and music while their leaders will give up all the culture over to the Muslims. Europe will be lost if the people of the Europe accept this.

    It is possible to fight for your culture, your mores, your Christian and Judeo-Christian heritage. You must fight for this because jihad isn’t just quiet, it is a death cult. You will be inviting into your countries people who want you dead unless you convert.

    The people have been cowed into keeping quiet. Over 12,000 people have been imprisoned in the UK for social media posts!

    At this time the people must stay strong and unite, perhaps even unite across geographic boundaries to get rid of the globalist leaders who are inviting in the people who will bring about the death of Europe.

  3. Your introductory remarks are spot on, Peloni! We live in the UK, where our treacherous government has imported millions of undocumented Muslim men to add to an already swiftly growing number of Muslim families who immigrated many years ago. They are all part of a quiet jihad, as you call it. Their existence means that those politicians who court their votes by recognizing the fictitious Palestinian state can hope to stay in office indefinitely. That is the carrot. The stick is that the politicians and the rest of us realistically recognize that violence is part of this religion, and we are running scared of the Muslims. The government could have stopped all this but they chose not to do so. Therefore I fear that the UK and Europe will now support the fake Palestinians over the Israelis and Israel will be permanently demonized.

    • Liz44: In fact we have been permanently demonized for over 2000 years; some would say 4000 years.

      Adding to your list of what our wonderful [sarc] governments have done, is disarm the citizens. Not quite complete in Canada, but on its way…

      In the meantime Israel should capitalize on the fear it has generated just about everywhere (they ain’t going to love Jews anyway) and accumulate as much living space as possible, so that the country can accommodate more of us… and perhaps more of the people in the region who are now being slaughtered!