JAKARTA - Israeli Defense Minister Katz said Israel would not allow the West Bank to turn into the Gaza Strip or southern Lebanon, during a visit to the West Bank to conduct a security assessment and receive briefing from senior officers on Sunday.
Israel is known to have carried out military operations to confront Palestinian militant groups Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as well as against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
"Anyone involved in such terror in Gaza will be treated as in Gaza, we will work to cut off Iran's octopus arms in refugee camps in Judea and Samaria and to maintain the safety of society and residents," Defense Minister Katz said in a statement issued by his office. January 12, using Bible terms for the West Bank.
Katz received the latest information on the massive IDF (Israel Defense Forces) operation over the weekend in Qabatiya, near Jenin, Border Police operations in West Bank refugee camps and recent operations culminating in the arrest of terrorist cells on their way to carry out the shooting attack.
Last week, Defense Minister Katz said his party would not silence an attack incident in the West Bank that killed two elderly women and an off-duty police officer, and injured eight others.
"The heinous and deadly terror attack that took place here yesterday was an act of war for all purposes and purposes, and it will be rewarded accordingly," said Defense Minister Katz.
Since October 7, troops have arrested about 6,000 Palestinians wanted across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
Separately, the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Health said more than 835 Palestinians in the West Bank had been killed in that period.
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The IDF said most of them were gunmen killed in the firefighting, rioters clashing with troops or terrorists who carried out the attack.
During the same period, 46 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank.
Six other members of the security forces were killed in clashes with operations in the West Bank.
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