The Israel Police Judea and Samaria District commander warned in an internal briefing that an October 7-style attack could occur in the West Bank, though not on the scale or with the level of preparedness seen in the 2023 assault. The warning was published Saturday evening by Channel 14 correspondent Lital Shapira. No additional details or operational measures were disclosed.
The commander of the Israel Police's Judea and Samaria District warned in an internal briefing that an October 7-style attack could unfold in the West Bank, according to Channel 14 reporter Lital Shapira. The commander said the scenario is possible, though not at the scale or with the level of preparedness that characterized the Hamas-led assault from Gaza on October 7, 2023.
The warning echoes a series of recent security assessments from senior Israeli officials about the risk of a large-scale attack from the West Bank. As The Zioneer previously reported, Senior Israeli official Hillel Bitton Rosen warned on June 21 that the West Bank could become the next front, and Shin Bet Director Ronen Zini warned of a possible October 7-type attack targeting Eilat, a warning that sparked an internal security establishment dispute. The police district commander's assessment adds a law-enforcement voice to those warnings, focusing on the policing and civil defense challenges in Judea and Samaria.
No specific intelligence or operational measures were disclosed in the report, and the IDF's Central Command did not immediately issue a statement. The Home Front Command's civil-defense guidelines for the area remain unchanged.
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