{"id":53082,"date":"2025-02-21T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/israeli-defense-minister-orders-intensified-raids-in-west-bank-after-bus\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:18:48","slug":"israeli-defense-minister-orders-intensified-raids-in-west-bank-after-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/israeli-defense-minister-orders-intensified-raids-in-west-bank-after-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli defense minister orders intensified raids in West Bank after bus explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No group immediately claimed responsibility for the explosions in the Tel Aviv area, which caused no injuries. However, Hamas&#8217; Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades in Tulkarm, northern West Bank, issued a statement praising the attack. &#8220;The revenge of the martyrs will not be forgotten as long as the occupier is present on our lands,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Katz vowed to exact a &#8220;heavy price&#8221; from those responsible. &#8220;We will hunt down the terrorists relentlessly and destroy the terror infrastructure,&#8221; he said in a statement released by his ministry.<\/p>\n<p>He said the intensified raids would focus on &#8220;the Tulkarm refugee camp and all refugee camps in the West Bank.&#8221; Israel&#8217;s state-owned Kan TV reported that the Shin Bet domestic security agency was investigating whether those who planted the explosive devices came from Tulkarm after a sticker found on one of the devices suggested the attack was &#8220;revenge&#8221; for recent Israeli raids that caused widespread destruction in the area.<\/p>\n<p>In the attack, three empty buses exploded within minutes, and explosive devices were found on two other buses, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Public transportation, including buses, trains, and Tel Aviv&#8217;s light rail, was temporarily suspended nationwide for security scans.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-82063\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/west_bank_2.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday ordered the military to escalate raids in refugee camps in the occupied West Bank following a series of bus explosions. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday ordered the military to escalate raids in refugee camps in the occupied West Bank following a series of bus explosions, which he said were &#8220;a terror attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000082062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000082062,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/west_bank_2.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/west_bank_2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/west_bank_2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/west_bank_2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/west_bank_2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/west_bank_2.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000082062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53082"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53082"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}