{"id":225248,"date":"2026-07-27T19:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/225248\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:55:18","slug":"ban-on-palestinian-workers-in-israeli-west-bank-communities-lifted-idf-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/225248\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on Palestinian workers in Israeli West Bank communities lifted, IDF says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palestinian workers are now permitted to work in Israeli West Bank<\/a> communities, the IDF told military reporters on Monday, following a ban imposed by Central Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“The return of Palestinian workers to communities in Judea and Samaria will be allowed, in accordance with the procedure for securing workers in industrial zones and communities,” the IDF said.<\/p>\n

The lifting of the ban follows a weekend of violence in the West Bank, including a terror attack at Gilad Farm<\/a> on Friday in which two Israelis, 32-year-old Master-Sergeant (res.) Benayahu Melet and 27-year-old IDF Maj. Yuval Ezra, were killed.<\/p>\n

Prior to the attack, a group of Israeli civilians had illegally crossed into Palestinian Authority-controlled territory during a hike, leading to a confrontation with local Palestinians, with one eventually opening fire on the Israelis, the military said.<\/p>\n

The IDF arrested over 70 suspects on Saturday following the Gilad Farm attack after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> ordered a sweeping crackdown, including increased troop deployments, new checkpoints, and expanded counterterrorism operations.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Israel Police<\/a> said the terrorist’s father had been arrested and taken in for questioning, noting that there was no evidence suggesting the father was involved in the attack.<\/p>\n

The father was arrested as part of Border Police operations in Tal near Nablus, Ramallah, Shuweika near Tulkarm, and Bani Naim near Hebron.<\/p>\n

The IDF recently decided to increase its presence in the West Bank, with senior military officials describing the situation as “highly volatile and extremely dangerous.”<\/p>\n

A security official warned on Sunday that the situation was “a snowball rolling downhill,” cautioning that “it will be difficult to stop.”<\/p>\n

A large-scale operation against terror infrastructure and incitement is expected to be postponed until after Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington, according to a senior security official.<\/p>\n

Sarah Ben-Nun and Amir Bohbot contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palestinian workers are now permitted to work in Israeli West Bank communities, the IDF told military reporters on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[423,37,14889,38672,545,6905],"class_list":["post-225248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-judea-and-samaria","tag-palestinian-workers","tag-terrorism","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116993702299691035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}