Netanyahu gov’t turning West Bank into ‘powder keg’: Israeli opposition party leader

The leader of Israel’s Democrats party, Yair Golan, warned Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is turning the occupied West Bank into a “powder keg,” Anadolu reports. His remarks came a day after Israeli occupiers, protected by the army, attacked the town of Tell near Nablus in the northern West Bank, killing four Palestinians and injuring four others, according to Palestinian sources. Two Israelis were also killed in a shooting as residents confronted the attack, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources. Following the incident, Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered a “wide-scale” military offensive in the occupied territory. In a post on the US social media company X, Golan accused the government and far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and […]