Kohavi orders IDF expand operations along West Bank security barrier after Tel Aviv attack

Military chief Aviv Kohavi instructs the Israel Defense Forces to increase operations along the West Bank security barrier, among other procedures following last night’s deadly terror attack in Tel Aviv.

Kohavi held a situational assessment with top IDF brass and other security officials this morning, the military says.

A statement from the IDF says Kohavi instructed the following: expanding and increasing offensive operations in the West Bank; focusing on activities in northern West Bank towns from which recent terrorists came from; continuing to bolster Israel Police; increasing defensive operations in the seam zone area; and examining the call-up of reservist troops, if necessary.

The terrorist who killed three in Tel Aviv last night was from the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank and had entered Israel illegally, though it remained unclear how exactly he entered.