Settlements council head calls for major Israeli operation against Palestinian Authority

Yisrael Gantz, head of an Israeli settlements council in the occupied West Bank, has called on the Israeli government to launch a large-scale military operation against the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its security forces following a fatal shooting near the settlement of Neve Tzuf, northwest of Ramallah. Gantz called on the government to “dismantle the Palestinian Authority and disarm its agencies,” arguing that the PA’s continued existence poses a security threat to Israel. His comments followed a shooting near a spring in the Binyamin region of the West Bank in which an Israeli settler was killed. READ: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty urge EU to ban trade with Israeli settlements Israeli forces later announced that they had arrested the person suspected of […]