Israel: Soldiers armed even off duty

After the resurgence of the attacks Palestinians with knives the… Israeli soldiers received the order to carry weapons even when they return to their homes and are out of service.
The decision was taken after the death, last Thursday, a soldier who had taken leave, whom stabbed two Palestinians at the time was shopping at an israeli commercial zone in the occupied palestinian West Bank.
His wife narrated subsequently in the media that her husband had asked his superiors to keep his gun for protection, but they had refused. The soldier had been forced to leave his gun at the base of the.
The testimony that provoked intense controversy in the media, the majority of which were critical of the fact that the majority of soldiers who get permission to return to their homes without arms and can not defend themselves or to intervene in case of an attack Palestinians.