Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 30.07.2026
Minister of War Yisrael Katz announced that during the US attacks on Iran, some of the American planes left bases in Israel. It is hard not to understand that this statement was intended for the Iranian regime in the hope that they would attack Israel and allow it to open another round. and drag the United States into this round. It is also likely that this announcement is part of his campaign.
This was not Katz’s only move yesterday, which seemed to be influenced by political considerations.
Katz ordered the Zionist army to occupy another refugee camp in the West Bank and evacuate it from its inhabitants – a move that is a war crime. At the same time, he ordered the lifting of restrictions against Yinon Dardik, a settler suspected of involvement in serious acts of violence against Palestinians.
Against the backdrop of the recent tension, and the incident in the Nablus area, is a prolonged escalation by settlers against residents of nearby Palestinian villages. It was ostensibly supposed to take measures against Jewish terrorists, but one of the first decisions he made was to cancel the administrative detention of Jews only in the West Bank.
The Shin Bet tried to be clever and issue movement restriction orders and restraining orders from the area to activists considered particularly dangerous who were pushing for an intifada and protesting. This is what was done in the Dardik case, when he was sent to detention for violating the restraining order issued against him.
Katz, who met with this settler this week, decided that too was too much and announced that the order would not be extended – even though the signing of the order is the responsibility of the OC Central Command. With such a nod to Jewish violence, it is no wonder that terrorist operatives in the settlements feel protected and continue their acts of terror. Netanyahu’s government will use resistance actions by individual Palestinians as an excuse to launch severe violence, declare a state of emergency and cancel the elections in light of the expectation that Netanyahu and his allies will lose the elections.