Aug. 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has assured this Thursday that they will not hesitate to use force and will not accept a situation in which “terrorist groups interrupt the daily lives of residents” due to the closure of roads near the Gaza Strip. in response to Monday’s arrest of a senior Islamic Jihad official in a raid in Jenin.
Lapid has spoken, according to the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’, with the local and regional councils of the area, de facto blocked for three days due to threats of attack, and has told them that more security assessments will be carried out .
For his part, Defense Minister Benny Gantz has also held a meeting with senior military and security officials to discuss mobility restrictions in the area, according to the Israeli media.
Gen. Nimrod Aloni, representing the Israeli Army, noted in a video that Israeli forces have been “on high alert in recent days. “Road blockades will continue as long as necessary. The safety of the residents comes first “, he has settled.
The Israeli army has indicated this Thursday that it will reinforce its forces near the Gaza Strip amid widespread road closures due to the possibility of attacks by Islamic Jihad in retaliation for the arrest of a senior member of the group in a raid. held late on Monday.
According to information collected by the Israeli newspaper ‘Haaretz’, Israeli troops have deployed drones in the area capable of attacking Palestinian militiamen who try to carry out attacks in the border area, including the use of grenade launchers or anti-tank weapons.
The head of the Israeli Army, Aviv Kohavi, has traveled to the area, who has analyzed the situation after the start of a third day of restrictions on movement and circulation on the border that have affected nearly 5,000 Israeli residents.
Over the past few hours, around 20 Palestinians have been arrested as part of raids carried out by Israeli forces in several West Bank towns, according to Palestinian security and local sources quoted by the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Monday’s raid on a refugee camp in Jenin resulted in the death of a Palestinian teenager and the arrest of Basam Saadi, a senior Islamic Jihad official, and his son-in-law Ashraf al Jada.
Saadi, 61, has been jailed and released a total of seven times by Israeli security forces. The Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency, had pointed out in recent months that the man “works hard to restore the activities of Islamic Jihad” and that “he is behind the creation of a significant military force” of the group in the West Bank, especially in Jenin.
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