Defense Minister Israel Katz vows that the IDF will remain in the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp even after an ongoing military operation there, “to ensure the terror does not return.”
“We declared a war on Palestinian terror in Judea and Samaria,” Katz says during a visit to Jenin, using the biblical name for the West Bank.
“Operation Iron Wall comes to defeat the terror infrastructure built in the Palestinian refugee camps with Iranian financing and supply,” he says.
Katz says the Jenin camp “will not return to be what it was.”
“After the operation is completed, IDF troops will remain in the camp to make sure terror does not return,” he says.
“I send a clear message from here to the Palestinian Authority: Stop funding terrorism and murder of Jews, and start fighting terror seriously. Anyone who funds the families of terrorists and murderers, and educates his children to destroy Israel, endangers his very existence,” Katz adds.
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