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July 5, 2024

Israel Must Stop the West Bank from Turning into a Hamas Stronghold

“Gazafication” is a double-edged sword.

On Tuesday, Israeli warplanes struck a group of terrorists in the West Bank town of Nur Shams while they were in the process of planting explosives. Similar explosives were used in the nearby city of Jenin last week to kill an IDF officer and wound sixteen others. These are just two of the latest examples of an escalation in terrorist activity, and Israeli attempts to curb it, in the West Bank—part of what Meir Ben-Shabbat describes as an effort by Hamas and Iran to “Gazafy” the area:

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July 5, 2024

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