After three empty buses detonated on top of a central Israel parking lot, Israel is gearing up for an “intensive” operation in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli security services say the bombings on Thursday evening, which caused no casualties, were the work of armed groups, according to Israeli media.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just finished a security assessment, according to the Israeli prime minister’s office, which was posted on social media.
The military has been given the directive to launch an extensive operation against the occupied West Bank and the centers of terrorism in Judea and Samaria. Netanyahu’s office stated that the Prime Minister also directed the ISA and Israel Police to increase preventative action to stop additional attacks in Israeli cities.
The movement of Palestinians was immediately slowed down in some parts of the West Bank, and further restrictions have been placed on those areas. Citing unnamed security officials, The Jerusalem Post reported that the explosives had been linked to “terrorist infrastructure” in the West Bank.
In order to advance its weeks-long offensive against Palestinian communities, the Israeli military later announced that it had added three additional units to its “Central Command,” which is in charge of Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
“The]Israeli military] continues to conduct an ongoing situation assessment and prepares to expand offensive activity”, the military said.
Three empty buses parked in depots close to Bat Yam, a city south of Tel Aviv, were destroyed by the bombs, and police discovered two more undetonated bombs in the area.
Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency has received the results of the investigation.
No further information was provided about the explosives’ potential explosion on Friday morning when people were heading to work, according to police.
According to police spokesman Haim Sargrof, “we need to know whether one suspect placed explosives on a number of buses, or whether there were multiple suspects.”
Nour Odeh, a correspondent for Al Jazeera, reported that the “intense Israeli military action” following the explosions has increased the plight of Palestinians in the West Bank.
More than 40, 000 people have been forced to flee the occupied West Bank as a result of an unprecedented military assault, according to Odeh.
Since the Israeli military launched their offensive on January 21, hundreds of checkpoints have been set up across the occupied West Bank, killing at least 70 Palestinians there.
Israeli troops have also extensively destroyed civilian infrastructure in nearby towns.
Source: Aljazeera
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