The security situation in the West Bank is stable, IDF Chief Staff Eisenkot tells the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Eisenkot says 70,000 Palestinian workers enter Israel with permits, and even as tens of thousands of others enter without security clearances, cooperation between the IDF and Palestinian security forces is good.
Eisenkot says the situation in the Gaza Strip is complex, partly because of feuds between Hamas and other terror organizations active in the Strip.
Israel, Eisenkot says, is trying to improve the economic situation in Gaza, including allowing the entrance of trucks carrying supplies to the territory. The IDF maintains a tit-for-tat policy with Hamas, in which rocket fire is answered by a closing of border crossings.
The top IDF officer says organizations more extreme than Hamas are growing stronger in the Strip and acting more openly. The military is trying to hinder their growth while also countering the tunnel digging activity of Hamas.
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