Three empty buses exploded Thursday evening while Israeli police found two other unteashed bombs.
Israel is preparing for an “intensive” operation in the occupied West Bank after bombs have exploded three empty buses in a central parking lot in Israel.
Israeli security services say that the bombing of Thursday evening, which made no victim, were the work of armed groups, according to Israeli media.
“Following the attempt to perpetuate a chain of mass shelter attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just completed a security assessment,” said the office of the Israeli Prime Minister on social networks .
“The Prime Minister ordered the (soldiers) to carry out an intensive operation against the centers of terrorism in Judea and Samaria (occupied West Bank). The Prime Minister also ordered the Israeli police and the ISA (Israeli security agency) to increase preventive activity against additional attacks in Israeli cities, “said Netanyahu’s office.
Some parts of the West Bank were immediately sealed and other restrictions were imposed on the Palestinian movement. Citing anonymous security officials, the Jerusalem Post reported that the explosives had been linked to a “terrorist infrastructure” in the West Bank.
The Israeli army later announced that it had deployed three additional units to its “central command”, which is responsible for the Israeli forces in occupied West Bank, in preparation to extend its several weeks offensive against the Palestinian communities.
“The (Israeli soldiers) continue to carry out a continuous evaluation of the situation and are preparing to extend the offensive activity,” said the army.
The bombs destroyed three empty buses parked in deposits around the bat, a city south of Tel Aviv, while two additional unteashed bombs were found in the region by the police.
The investigation was sent to the internal security agency of Shin Bet in Israel.
According to police, the explosives were probably intended to leave Friday morning when people were on their way to work, describing the devices as identical to the others used in the West Bank, but no other details were provided.
“We have to determine if only one suspect has placed explosives on a number of buses, or if there were several suspects,” police spokesman Haim Sargrof, Israeli media, told.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent Nour Odeh said that Palestinians in the West Bank live in additional fear after the “announcements of the prohibited Israeli military action” after the explosions.
“The occupied West Bank, especially in the north of Tulkarem and Jenin, underwent an unprecedented military assault, leading to the movement of the mass of more than 40,000,” said Odeh.
Israeli forces have set up hundreds of control points through the occupied West Bank since the start of their offensive on January 21, and at least 70 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army at that time.
There has also been the general destruction of civil infrastructure in local communities by Israeli troops.
