2024-01-26 07:27:38
The Israeli security establishment accuses ministers of bringing regarding a “third intifada”
A senior official in the security establishment attacked the ministers and political officials in the far-right Israeli government, saying that they are consciously and knowingly leading the region to a third Palestinian intifada in the West Bank. The official said that politicians who incite and pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, work to undermine the Palestinian Authority, and insist on preventing the entry of Palestinian workers into Israel, “are consciously leading us to the third intifada, and perhaps intentionally.”
The security official’s statements came at a time when there is a major, public and clear disagreement between the political and security levels in dealing with the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinians in the West Bank. The security establishment informed Netanyahu that increasing pressure on the Authority and the Palestinians in the West Bank would lead to escalation in the West Bank and turn it into a third front, which would harm the war efforts in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli soldiers restrain Jewish settlers following they stormed the Palestinian village of Deir Sharaf in the West Bank (AFP)
Transferring money to the authority
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called for strengthening the Authority, transferring funds to it, and allowing Palestinian workers to return to work in Israel, because stability in the West Bank is an Israeli interest. Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper confirmed that the security establishment fears that the army’s unprecedented operations in the West Bank, during which hundreds of militants were killed, thousands arrested, and changed the security reality in the West Bank, may collapse and be in vain within a few months, if the authority is not established. Palestinian in the picture.
The security official clarified that he was not talking regarding “large-scale political movements.” But regarding simple things like bringing in workers, security cooperation. Small things that strengthen and enhance power.
Israel has escalated in the West Bank since the Hamas attack on October 7, imposing an atmosphere of war there, killing and arresting Palestinians on a daily basis in long attacks that left a lot of destruction in infrastructure and homes. On Thursday, the Israeli army shot dead Wissam Walid Khashan in the village of Bir al-Basha, south of Jenin.
Eyewitnesses narrated that undercover soldiers stormed the village with military reinforcements, raided the Khashan family’s house, following besieging it, and executed Wissam from zero distance, with a hail of bullets.
Israel has killed more than 370 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7 and arrested thousands.
Israeli military vehicles during a raid on the city of Tulkarm and its camp in the West Bank (EPA)
Disagreement between politicians and security forces
The dispute between politicians and the security establishment moved into the security establishment itself as the month of Ramadan approached. Israeli media said that a heated debate broke out in the corridors of decision-makers in Israel regarding the facilities for the month of Ramadan in light of the war.
The Israeli army supports providing facilities that include allowing Palestinians from the West Bank to access Al-Aqsa Mosque for the purpose of praying during Ramadan, but the police refused.
During a heated debate over the issue, police officials insisted “not to allow any Palestinian from the West Bank to enter Jerusalem.” A representative of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said that the police are not prepared to take risks, and that Ben Gvir gives them full support in this matter.
He added: “It is impossible at a time like this to accept people, some of whom do not come to pray at all. “We don’t want to take any risks.” But army officials opposed this, and said that the entry of Palestinians from the West Bank, who would arrive at Al-Aqsa Mosque in organized and safe convoys, must be approved.
The army representative stated that the situation must continue as it was in previous years, when regarding 100,000 people arrived for prayer every weekend. The final decision in the hearing is supposed to be placed on the table of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at an unspecified later, who will have to make the decision.
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