Will Military Operations Stop or Continue in West Bank?
Al-Huriya News Agency - After publishing news on Israeli sites that talks about the military operation in the West Bank concerning the searching of three missing settlers and the raids against Hamas that will end within days, today the Israeli Defense Minister stated he didn't get any instruction to stop such operations or reduce them.
The Israeli Defense Minister stated that :" We didn't get any instructions to reduce the Israeli soldiers activities in the West Bank, but to increase our work against Hamas movement. We, and all security apparatus with the police and army continue our efforts to get the three missing settlers back. This operation needs long time and a lot of endurance and patience, and we will solve the riddle eventually.
At the same time, the expert of Israeli affairs "Adel Shaded" stated to Al-Huriya News Agency that the military operations will never stop until at least the return of the three missing settlers. However, there may be a change in the shape of the military operation, the Israeli Intelligence still tries to reach a solution for the issue of missing settlers. While all its effort were of no success.
Occupation works on destroying the infrastructure of Hamas movement in West Bank through arrests and raids campaign on the movement's institutions. However, Netanyahu become in a difficult political position after the statements declared by the president Mahmoud Abbas and Mishaal days ago, Shaded added. In addition, Netanyahu intended to target the institutions of PA and the security offices, so he previously declared his statement for targeting and raiding PA institutions, but he returned recently after the speech of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and its position about the issue of kidnapping settlers.
According to the reporter of another Israeli channel, three ministers, one of them is Naphtali Banit, minister of economy, called Netanyahu to carry the campaign out against PA foundations and the latter agrees. However, before Netanyahu approves the decision, Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni and Finance Minister Lapid intervened and warned of carrying out such a step, making Netanyahu stop making the decision-.