Israeli forces are withdrawing from Gaza, but at the same time, they are intensifying their operations in the occupied West Bank. Our correspondent Jonathan Regev reports from Tel Aviv.
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00:00Looking at the entire arena. So yes forces are pulling out of Gaza just in the past 24 hours
00:04He's really strikes in Lebanon. He's really strikes in Syria and in the West Bank as you mentioned the operation is is
00:11Widening and now is not only happening in the area of Janine
00:16But also a to the southwest of there in the area of Tul Karem specifically the two bus a refugee camp
00:23This is a quite a a flash point for militant activity in the West Bank
00:28And he's really forces have been operating there as well a people that did go back to the Janine refugee camp are describing
00:36describing scenes a
00:38Similar to those seen from Gaza people are saying that they cannot go back to their homes
00:43And we can only assume that in a few more days
00:46These will also be the voices coming out off to bus Israel is extremely concerned of the rise in militant activity
00:53Seen in the West Bank just in the past few weeks there have been plenty of shooting attacks against the Israeli vehicles Israeli buses in
01:01the and the army checkpoints in the West Bank with various people killed and a clearly a
01:09concern or for in the rise of a militant a
01:13activity and
01:15Also a concern in the rise of popularity of Hamas in the West Bank
01:20Every Saturday along with the release of Israeli hostages
01:23Hundreds and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are returning back home as far as the Palestinians are concerned
01:29This is happening only because of Hamas and its activity against Israel
01:33It is adding to the popularity of Hamas in the West Bank
01:36It is adding according to Israel to militant activity the Israeli forces are trying to do whatever they can to prevent the rise of
01:43This activity most of the time with success
01:47But not always there is still a quite a rise in militant activity and an Israeli delegation has arrived in Qatar for the next round
01:54of negotiations
01:56Jonathan what is still on the table to discuss?
02:02It was actually six days ago on in day 16 of
02:07First phase of the ceasefire in which negotiations should have begun on the second stage of the ceasefire
02:13It is not really happened Israel said that the negotiations there carried out by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the United States
02:20With the Middle East the envoy Steve Whitcoff they signaled the beginning of for those on negotiations
02:25But if we're looking for something big happening in Qatar
02:28It has not happened yet, and it will not happen with the current delegation in a Qatar
02:33We're not seeing there the head of the Israeli Security Agency or the head of the Israeli Secret Service the Mossad
02:39This is a lower level and delegation a work level delegation dealing with technical issues
02:44But not with a very big issues on the agenda that is not happening yet a Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
02:51Is set to land in Israel in the coming two hours back from Washington?
02:55Then he's supposed to convene the security cabinet and maybe then after that we will see a higher level
03:02Delegation heading to Qatar for talks on the second phase of the ceasefire
03:07There's a lot of pressure on the government to proceed with that especially after the images seen yesterday with three hostages
03:15Returning home though those are good news
03:17But the situation in which they came back very thin very pale very weak
03:22And that of course caused a lot of alarm in Israel. It was thought that a hostages will come back this way
03:29But for the first time Israelis saw this with their eyes, and it creates a lot of pressure on the government
03:36But Netanyahu has his own
03:38Calculations of course his coalition a what will happen with his coalition if he goes to the second phase what will been clear and small
03:44Twitch have to say about that all this is a now up to Benjamin Netanyahu to decide
03:49But for the current delegation in Qatar there we could not we should not expect a lot of progress just out of that