Smotrich said in a post on the X platform that he toured the waste burning site in the town of Na’alin, accompanied by Knesset Member Zvi Sukkot, head of the subcommittee for what is called “Judea and Samaria,” referring to the biblical name for the West Bank.
He added that the tour included monitoring what he described as "ongoing enforcement operations" within the framework of what he called efforts to "reassert control over the area," noting that this comes after the decision of the Security Cabinet, which he led with Defense Minister Yisrael Katz, granting security forces expanded powers to intervene, including within Areas A and B.
In a related context, Israeli settlers on Monday disrupted a field tour conducted by the Russian Ambassador to Palestine, Buachidze Gocha, accompanied by the Governor of Salfit, Mustafa Taqatqa, in the northern West Bank, to inspect the effects of settlement attacks in the governorate.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that settlers intercepted the delegation's vehicles in the Wadi al-Matwi area and made verbal threats that prevented the tour from being completed, at a time when the Salfit governorate is witnessing repeated attacks by the Israeli occupation army and settlers.
According to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission (a government body), the governorate recorded more than 500 settlement attacks during 2025, while the Israeli authorities are considering implementing 41 settlement plans on its lands.
The governor of Salfit described these attacks as "terrorism perpetrated by settlers supported by the occupation government," while the Russian ambassador expressed his concern about the incident, calling for respect for international law and the protection of official delegations and civilians.
In the southern part of Jenin city in the northern West Bank, the Israeli occupation army on Monday forced a number of Palestinian families to evacuate their homes in the Araba camp, in preparation for redeploying its forces to the site it evacuated in 2005.
Palestinian Jamal Rashid, one of those affected, said that the army gave families with more than 50 members until Tuesday morning to leave their homes, explaining that these families work in raising livestock and have been living in old buildings inside the camp since it was evacuated about two decades ago.
The occupation army evacuated the camp in 2005 as part of what was known as the "disengagement plan," which included the evacuation of military sites and settlements in the northern West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Since the outbreak of the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, Israel has intensified its military operations in the occupied West Bank, including killing, arrests, displacement, and settlement expansion, in a course that Palestinians consider a prelude to the formal annexation of the West Bank.
According to Palestinian sources, these attacks resulted in the martyrdom of at least 1,112 Palestinians, the injury of about 11,500 others, in addition to the arrest of more than 21,000.
