US Embassy in Israel advises employees to avoid public transport after Tel Aviv bus blasts

The IDF continues to conduct ongoing situational assessment and is prepared to expand offensive activity,

it said in a statement

Avichay Adraeemilitary spokesman

According to the assessment of the relevant authorities and based on available intelligence and diagnostic indicators, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were brutally killed in captivity in November 2023 by Palestinian terrorists,

Adraee said

Police bomb disposal units are scanning for additional suspicious objects. We urge the public to avoid the areas and remain alert for any suspicious items,

it added

The Prime Minister has ordered the [military] to carry out an intensive operation against centres of terrorism in Judea and Samaria [the occupied West Bank]. The Prime Minister also ordered the Israel Police and the ISA [Israeli Security Agency] to increase preventative activity against additional attacks in Israeli cities,

Netanyahu’s office said

The occupied West Bank, especially in the north in Tulkarem and Jenin, have been going through an unprecedented military assault, resulting in the mass forced displacement of more than 40,000,

Odeh said

We need to determine if a single suspect placed explosives on a number of buses, or if there were multiple suspects,

police spokesman Haim Sargrof told Israeli media

Following the attempt to perpetrate a chain of mass bus bombings, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just completed a security assessment,

the office of the Israeli prime minister said on social media

Following a situational assessment, it has been decided to reinforce the area of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) with three additional battalions,

the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement

Israel Katzdefense Minister

We will hunt down the terrorists relentlessly and destroy the terror infrastructure,

Katz said in a statement,