Gunmen connected to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas claimed credit for the outrageous attack.

It’s clear who is behind the recent wave of terror in the biblical heartland, but not exactly how. And there are additional concerns.

Weaponry found among criminal elements in the Arab community may eventually be turned against Israel’s security forces.

Separately, Israeli security forces arrest 24 terror suspects in Judea and Samaria.

“We are trying to prevent and to fight terror before it happens,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, head of Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, which sponsors the course.

They can cause a lot more harm than a rifle or knife.

Deadly shooting comes days after a Palestinian terrorist murdered an Israeli father and son on the same highway, further north in Samaria.

The terrorist first checked that the targets were Israeli Jews before opening fire from point-blank range at a local car wash.

“It was not short of an attempted lynch,” says Jewish man who frantically tried to protect his pregnant wife.