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This is a large-scale event occurring simultaneously in at least five locations,
Sargarof said
Bomb disposal units are working to neutralize them,
Tel Aviv District Commander Haim Sargarof told a press briefingThe Prime Minister also ordered the Israel Police and the (Israel Security Agency) to increase preventative activity against additional attacks in Israeli cities,
the statement added
The prime minister has ordered the IDF to carry out an intensive operation against centers of terrorism in Judea and Samaria,
his office wrote on X, adding
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We will pursue the terrorists to the end and destroy the terrorist infrastructure in the camps that form the front line of the Iranian axis of evil,
said Katz
The occupied West Bank, especially in the north in Tulkarem and Jenin, has been going through an unprecedented military assault, resulting in the forced mass displacement of more than 40,000,
Odeh saidThis appears to be something characteristic of the (occupied) West Bank,
he said, reported IANS
All buses, heavy rail trains, and light rail trains must be stopped and inspected, and actions should be taken according to the guidelines of the Shin Bet (security service) and the police,
Minister of Transport and Road Safety Miri Regev said in a statement Thursday
Several suspicious objects were also examined, though police bomb disposal units later determined they were not a threat,
the police said in a statementPolice forces and rapid response teams are deployed across Bat Yam and Holon, with bomb disposal experts working to neutralize the explosive devices found. Other buses in the area are currently being searched to rule out any additional threats,
the police addedPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been receiving ongoing updates from his military secretary on the IED (improvised-explosive-device) incidents in the Dan (central) area and will soon hold a security assessment,
the office said in a statement
In light of the serious attempted attacks in the Gush Dan (central) area by Palestinian terrorist organisations against the civilian population in Israel, I have instructed the IDF (military) to intensify operations to thwart terrorism in the Tulkarem refugee camp and in all the refugee camps in Judea and Samaria,
Katz said in a statement, using the biblical term for the West Bank
Following the attempt to perpetrate a chain of mass bus bombings, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just completed a security assessment with the Defense Minister, the IDF Chief-of-Staff, the ISA Director and the Israel Police Inspector General."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement published to X on Thursday
The martyrs' souls will not be forgotten as long as the occupier is present on our land...It is a jihad of victory or martyrdom."
Shortly after the blasts, a Telegram group purporting to represent the "Tulkarem Brigade" of Hamas' military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades issued an ominous message, readingThis is an anonymous, unidentified body,
the IDF saidFollowing a situational assessment, the IDF's counterterrorism operation in Judea and Samaria continues and will be directed according to intelligence findings. the IDF has closed off the entry of certain areas in Judea and Samaria. At the end of the situational assessment, the Chief of the General Staff, LTG. Herzi Halevi, instructed to assist the Israel Police as necessary and to strengthen activity in the area of the buffer zone."
The IDF in a statement shared with Newsweek on ThursdayThese operations should be done privately out of the utmost respect for the deceased and for those left grieving,
the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement on Thursday
I cannot imagine a worse choice,
Senator Dick Durbin, told colleagues before the 51-49 vote by the GOP-controlled SenateAll the reports I’ve heard so far talking to people – whether they’re contractors, workers, or just people out on the street that I know – think this is the best thing that could have ever happened,
he saidWe will never forget to take vengeance for our martyrs as long as the occupation is on our lands.”
A group identifying itself as a branch of Hamas’ military wing, Qassam Brigades, from the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, posted on messaging app Telegram