Palestinian Gunmen Open Fire on Israelis in the West Bank, Officials Say
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Israel Has Its Pretext for Total War on West Bank
After two Israeli soldiers were killed in Hebron four days before the election, Netanyahu threatened a new war, as CN predicted yesterday, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened a major military offensive a
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced large-scale operations in the occupied West Bank following the assassination of Israeli soldiers.
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The murder of two soldiers by two Palestinians, then killed, unleashes the Jewish state's response: closed territories, Hebron surrounded by a very large operation as never before since 1967.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preparing for the largest operation in the West Bank since 1967 to dismantle the militias there, declared on Friday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We evacuate the inhabitants, we will go from house to house, we will remove weapons from it, and all terrorist infrastructure will be destroyed," he quoted The Times of Israel.
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