{"id":234626,"date":"2026-08-03T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/234626\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:28:07","slug":"defense-minster-israel-katz-confirms-idf-central-command-chief-not-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/234626\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Minster Israel Katz confirms IDF Central Command Chief not dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Defense Minister Israel Katz emphasized that IDF Central Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth has not been dismissed and is performing well in his role in the military, during a meeting with heads of the local authorities from the West Bank on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Katz&#8217;s clarification followed a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-904407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> statement he made<\/a> during a live Channel 14 interview on Sunday, in which he denied calling for Bluth to be removed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Bluth has recently faced scrutiny for pursuing contradictory policies and allowing Arab terrorism to intensify.<\/p>\n<p>Katz&#8217;s meeting was at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, and attended by various chairmen, council heads, and mayors. The goal of the meeting was to discuss combating Palestinian terrorism and strengthening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/christianworld\/article-904426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Bank<\/a> communities, according to a joint statement made by Katz and local authority heads.<\/p>\n<p>The West Bank authorities expressed deep appreciation for Katz&#8217;s security policies, particularly referencing what they called a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-902635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">settlement<\/a> revolution&#8221; in the West Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The defense minister, with the help of Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-904449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, has recognized 104 new communities and 160 agricultural farms in the contested area, along with returning IDF forces to the north of the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The West Bank leaders went on to hail Katz for canceling administrative detention orders against settlers, attributing an 80% drop in terrorist incidents to the policy change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In their joint statement, the defense minister and the West Bank leaders underscored the importance of the West Bank communities as strategic assets for Israel and the ongoing efforts to combat Palestinian terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Israel Katz emphasized that IDF Central Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth has not been dismissed and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[423,17081,37,99,14889,40647,11207,6905],"class_list":["post-234626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-idf","tag-idf-israel","tag-israel","tag-israel-katz","tag-judea-and-samaria","tag-palestinian-terrorism","tag-settlers","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117033704088860435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234626","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=234626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}