Yedioth Ahronoth: The West Bank is a time bomb about to explode

Yedioth Ahronoth published an article, warned that Israel still has a chance to prepare for threats coming from the Palestinian territories, after failing to anticipate the Hamas attack and prepare for what happened on October 7, 2023.

The boiling West Bank front isn’t receiving the attention it needs from Israel, because it’s a front saturated with terrorism, and the countdown of the bomb can be heard before its imminent explosion.

The ongoing war between the Palestinian Authority’s security services and militants in Jenin, as the fight between “two terrorist organizations,” according to the article, one of which “has undergone a whitewashing process,” namely the Palestinian Authority.

However, the article warned that the Palestinian Authority, which was sponsored and built by Israel, was on the verge of exploding.

Displaced Palestinians gather around a fire to keep warm in a camp during cold weather amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on December 27, 2024.

Israel has transformed the Palestinian Authority, which it described as a “terrorist body,” into a legitimate institution that can not only represent the Palestinians, but also participate in maintaining Israel’s security.

According to the article, “the heavy reliance has made some wonder what will happen if the Palestinian Authority collapses,” explaining that the question has been raised in Israel about Hamas and who will succeed it, and the expectation was that the Authority “may be worse than Hamas”.

The discussions and assessments focused on preparing for the moment of the fall of the Palestinian Authority, which is on the verge of collapse, and whose days are numbered, just as the preparation was ideal for the moment of Bashar al Assad’s overthrow.

The article warned of the possibility that the Palestinian Authority’s security services would use their weapons against Israel after being criticized among Palestinians for collaborating with Israel.

According to the article, the West Bank has witnessed mini-incidents over the past years similar to the October 7 attack, some of which were carried out by members of the Palestinian Authority.