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| Defense Chief: Hamas-Fueled West Bank Violence In Decline |
| 2014-12-10 |
| [IsraelTimes] Defense Minister Moshe Ya?alon on Tuesday accused Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leaders in Gazoo and Turkey of fueling West Bank violence, but said sky-high tensions in the territories have subsided in recent weeks thanks to the IDF. Addressing the Knesset?s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee ahead of the impending dissolution of the Knesset, the defense minister also leveled a warning against Syria, two days after Damascus accused Israel of carrying out Laying out Israel?s security threats, Ya?alon warned that calm in the West Bank could easily dissipate. He was speaking less than an hour after security forces said they thwarted a planned terror attack in a settlement near Jerusalem. ?Right now there is a certain decrease in terror and escalation in the West Bank, but there?s no guarantee it will last. There is major pressure from outside, primarily from Hamas, to heat up Judea and Samaria,? he said, using the biblical name for the West Bank. ?We continue to operate there in order to thwart the terror infrastructure, which is mostly operated from the outside, whether from the Gazoo Strip or Turkey.? The defense minister said the Israeli security forces were also working to halt ?lone wolf? attacks, which he said are born of incitement. |
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