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Israel Threatens to Kill Palestinian Authority Leaders in the West Bank

From Republika · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel would launch a major campaign against senior Palestinian Authority officials, its security forces and what he called “terrorist infrastructure” if security conditions worsened.
  • Katz said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered the military to prepare, while warning against a repeat of the Second Intifada or the Oct. 7 attacks.
  • The statements followed violence in the northern West Bank, where Israel said it killed a Palestinian attacker and Palestinian authorities reported that Jewish settlers killed another Palestinian man.

Israel’s defense minister has threatened an “all-out war” in the occupied West Bank if groups linked to the Palestinian Authority are found to be planning a military operation. Israel Katz said the campaign would target senior Palestinian Authority officials, its security personnel and what he called “terrorist infrastructure.”

Katz told reporters on Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed Israel’s military to prepare for such an operation if the security situation deteriorated. “We will not allow a repeat of the intifada situation that lasted for years, as happened in the past,” he said. “We will not allow a repeat of the situation of October 7; we will guarantee the security of citizens and Israeli communities wherever they are.”

We will not allow a repeat of the intifada situation that lasted for years, as happened in the past.

· Israel KatzThe Israeli defense minister warned that Israel would act against a planned military operation by groups linked to the Palestinian Authority.

The fighting in the occupied West Bank from 2000 to 2005, commonly known as the Second Intifada, killed thousands of people, mainly Palestinians and Israeli settlers. Groups affiliated with the Palestinian Authority took part, including the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which was linked to the ruling Fatah party. After the intifada, the Palestinian Authority faced widespread criticism for cooperating with Israeli security forces and helping suppress Palestinian activists and armed groups in the West Bank.

Katz said any major operation against the Palestinian Authority would imitate what he described as “security zones” previously imposed in Gaza and Lebanon. On Monday, the Israeli military said it had shot dead a Palestinian who stabbed an Israeli settler in the northern West Bank. Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said a man in his twenties had been taken to hospital in moderate to serious condition. The Palestinian Health Ministry separately said Jewish settlers had shot dead a Palestinian man in the village of Hajeh, east of Qalqilya, after earlier reports of Israeli forces and settlers firing at residents and wounding several people.

We will not allow a repeat of the situation of October 7; we will guarantee the security of citizens and Israeli communities wherever they are.

· Israel KatzKatz said Israel’s military was preparing for a possible deterioration in security in the West Bank.
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Originally published by Republika in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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