Situation in West Bank likely to explode: Israeli Media
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Israeli media say that the Jordan Valley Operation is "exceptional" and "things in the West Bank may escalate."
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"The situation in the West Bank is very likely to explode, and the entry of weapons into the battle is new and of a major importance"
The military affairs correspondent for the Israeli Channel 12, Nir Dvory, confirmed that "the activities of the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank have become very extensive in light of the warnings, recent events, and Palestinians' continued attempts to carry out operations."
Dvory added, "It has been assessed that things in the West Bank may intensify, as we see that when operations succeed, there are those who try to imitate them."
For his part, Ohad Hemo, the Palestinian Affairs Correspondent for the Israeli Channel 12, commented on the state of panic that the occupation soldiers had following yesterday's Jordan Valley operation, saying, "We see the soldiers not knowing what to do and hiding behind the benches; this is how the shooting looked on a bus transporting soldiers in the Jordan Valley.
He continued, "The majority of the soldiers are recruits who did not carry weapons, but there were several armed soldiers who opened fire on the perpetrators. The scenes were not easy."
Hemo pointed out that "the situation in the West Bank is very likely to explode, and the entry of weapons into the battle is new and of a major importance; weapons are being heavily used."
Jordan Valley incident "exceptional"
An expert on Arab affairs for Israeli Channel 13 said that "the Jordan Valley incident is exceptional and different from all the operations we knew in the Jenin and Nablus area, in terms of shooting at a soldiers' bus."
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He added, "The army and the Shin Bet are at a crossroads this week, and perhaps in the coming weeks. Will undirected and unorganized terrorism spread to areas that are currently relatively calm, such as the southern West Bank and the areas of Beit Lahm and Al-Khalil, where we would then witness a different story?"
He pointed out that "things are heading towards increasing severity, and what helps this is authorities being out of the picture."
Yesterday, the military commentator on the Israeli Channel 13, Alon Ben-David, said, "I hear statements about what we have been seeing in recent months, saying it is a new kind of uprising that is different from what we witnessed in the 80s and the year 2000, and what distinguishes it is a lot of violence directed against the Israeli army in every arrest operation."
In turn, a Palestinian affairs correspondent for the Israeli Kan channel commented saying, "the data recently presented in the security and military establishment, which we are publishing today for the first time, confirm that in 2021, 91 Palestinian operations were recorded, 75 of which were against security forces and military targets," adding that in the year 2022 that has not ended yet, more than 150 operations were recorded, more than 130 of which were against the security forces."
It is noteworthy that these Israeli statements came after a shooting operation in the direction of a bus of occupation soldiers in the Jordan Valley, causing 6 injuries.
