Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in a photo published by Israeli state broadcaster KAN, alongside Israeli forces, breaking into a Palestinian family’s home in the Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank, which was turned into a military base after the family was forcibly expelled.
The image also shows Israeli soldiers putting an Israeli flag on one of the home’s walls.
In a video posted on X, Benjamin Netanyahu was also seen in Tulkarm wearing a military vest and conducting a situational assessment of the ongoing Israeli military operations in the West Bank city.
On Thursday, multiple explosive devices detonated on empty buses in Bat Yam and Holon, near Tel Aviv, with no casualties. Two additional undetonated bombs were found in the area by police.
Critics suspect the attack is a ‘false flag’ to justify the ongoing West Bank massacres.
Netanyahu has announced a new military operation in the West Bank following the explosions. He ordered the deployment of three additional battalions to the West Bank before any investigation results were released.
Israel Police and the Shin Bet security agency were said on Friday to have detained two Jewish Israelis and a Palestinian in connection with the explosions.
Israeli courts have now ordered a full ban on all Israeli media outlets from reporting on the bombings.
Two analysts, Ihab Jabarin and Elias Hanna, with Al Jazeera Arabic channel, said the explosions in Tel Aviv could have been fabricated to achieve Israeli objectives, in light of internal tensions within Israel following the return of prisoners in coffins and accusations against the government of betraying them.
The Israeli military assaults in the northern West Bank refugee camps have been ongoing for a month, during which dozens of Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed. The attacks have caused widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure, resulting in the forced displacement of more than 40,000 people.
Israeli forces have also razed large areas of the Tulkarm, Nour Shams, and Jenin camps, demolished and burned hundreds of homes, and forced tens of thousands of Palestinians to flee.
Israeli forces have set up hundreds of checkpoints across the occupied West Bank since the start of their offensive on January 21, and the Israeli military has killed at least 70 Palestinians during that time.
