Gallant: IDF ‘mowing the lawn’ in West Bank, but will need to ‘pull out the roots’
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday that the military has been “mowing the lawn” during an ongoing major operation against terror groups in the West Bank, but will eventually need to “pull out the roots.”
The operation — internally dubbed “Summer Camps” by the army — began on August 28 with simultaneous raids on Jenin, Tulkarem and the Far’a camp near Tubas, with the goal of dismantling Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror networks in the three areas of the northern West Bank.
Following an assessment in the West Bank with senior IDF officers, Gallant said that “the rise of terror in Judea and Samaria is an issue that we need to be focused on at every moment.” He was calling the West Bank by its biblical name.
