Defense minister says he instructed army to stay 'for coming year' in West Bank refugee camps and not allow 40,000 displaced Palestinians home The post IDF deploys 3 tanks to Jenin for 1st time since 2002,

Israel is deepening its crackdown on the Palestinian territory and has said it is determined to stamp out militancy amid a rise in attacks.

Israel says it is scaling up a weekslong offensive in the occupied West Bank, sending in tanks to a militant stronghold and pledging to keep troops in place for the next year in areas where Palestinia

Israel's defense minister says he has instructed the military to prepare to remain in some of the occupied West Bank’s urban refugee camps “for the coming year.”