Netanyahu orders ‘wide-scale’ military offensive in occupied West Bank villages

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said Friday that they had ordered the army to launch a “wide-scale military operation” in Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports. In a joint statement, Netanyahu and Katz also said the army had been instructed to demolish the home of the Palestinian accused of carrying out a shooting attack against occupiers near the Palestinian town of Tell in the northern West Bank. A large Israeli military force raided the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, according to an Anadolu correspondent. The measures followed a security incident near the illegal Havat Gilad settlement, close to Nablus, that killed two Israeli soldiers and injured three others, according […]