Netanyahu meets with senior security officials to discuss West Bank violence, Israeli settlement
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a situational assessment in the West Bank on Monday, following recent outbreaks of violence in the area.
Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, National Security Council head Shmuel Ben Ezra, Central Command head Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth, Military Intelligence Chief, Maj.-Gen. Shlomi Binder, IDF Operations Division head, Brig.-Gen. A, Judea and Samaria Division commander, Brig.-Gen. Kobi Heller, and other senior officials attended.
The meeting covered a general assessment of security threats in the region, with a particular focus on terror, as well as the "dramatic increase" in Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Katz said afterward. He also praised the IDF soldiers and other service members who enforce Israel's policies in Judea and Samaria, "including the order we gave to evacuate refugee camps in northern Samaria and destroy terror infrastructure there."
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