Israeli Minister Enters West Bank Amid Wider Push Annexation Steps
“Today, I carried out a tour (raid) of the waste-burning site in the town of Ni’lin, accompanied by the head of the Judea and Samaria Subcommittee (the biblical name for the West Bank), Knesset member Tzvi Sukkot,” Smotrich said on the US social media company X’s platform.
Addressing the broader annexation agenda, he added: “During the tour, we closely monitored ongoing enforcement activities at the site, as part of broader efforts to restore control over the area and stop the continued impact on the quality of life of Israeli citizens.”
“This tour came a day after the decision of the security cabinet, which I led together with Defense Minister Israel Katz, granting security forces strong enforcement powers against environmental terrorism, even within Areas A and B.”
Highlighting the move, Smotrich said Israel “takes responsibility and acts wherever its citizens are harmed.”
In a separate development the same day, Israeli forces ordered multiple Palestinian families living south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin to leave their homes ahead of plans to reestablish a military presence at a camp vacated two decades ago.
Jamal Rashid, a local resident affected by the order, said the Israeli army instructed several families—more than 50 people in total—to leave their homes and clear the Arraba camp area south of Jenin by Tuesday morning, according to reports.
He explained that the families depend largely on raising livestock and had moved into older structures inside the camp after Israeli troops withdrew in 2005. Those buildings, he noted, were originally constructed before Israel’s occupation of the West Bank in 1967.
“But the army arrived on Saturday and informed residents that they must evacuate in preparation for its return to the camp,” Rashid said.
He added that families have already begun relocating their possessions and animals to other parts of Arraba, despite having no alternative housing arrangements available.
The camp had previously been abandoned in 2005 under what was known as the “disengagement plan,” an Israeli initiative that involved the removal of settlements and military installations from parts of the northern West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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