Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have ordered the IDF to target senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials in an “all-out war” against terrorism in the West Bank, should Israel identify a plan to launch an “October 7-style” attack against Israeli forces and Jewish settlements. Benjamin Netanyahu and I ordered the IDF to prepare to launch an all-out war against senior officials and mechanisms of the [Palestinian] Authority, the agencies associated with them and against the entire terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria, to quickly achieve their complete defeat,” Katz said. We will not allow a return to the reality of a continuous intifada that lasted for years, as was the case in the past,” the Defense Minister continued. “Instead, we will launch a comprehensive campaign against the Authority and the entire terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria, including the elimination of senior officials, the evacuation of residents from cities and towns from where terrorist activity will be carried out. “No terrorist can hide,” Netanyahu said in a separate statement. “I congratulate our heroic fighters who confronted the enemy and eliminated the terrorist who carried out the attack in Samaria. I wish a full recovery to the farm owner who was injured in the attack. assessment was that its members were preparing to carry out a major attack in the northern West Bank. Avi Ashkenazi contributed to this report.
