{"id":249422,"date":"2026-08-14T21:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/249422\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T21:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:49:20","slug":"west-bank-law-enforcement-to-shift-from-idf-to-israel-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/249422\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bank law enforcement to shift from IDF to Israel Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Katz ordered the change\u00a0following a meeting on Thursday\u00a0with IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant\u00a0General\u00a0Eyal Zamir and other senior military officials.<\/p>\n<p>The defence minister reportedly implied that the IDF\u2019s job is to fight against terrorism and protect Israel\u2019s borders rather than \u201cchase youth in the hilltops\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Katz stated that fighting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/politics\/miliband-settler-violence-crackdown-first-call-israel-saar-t83ufbfh\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">settler violence in the West Bank<\/a> \u201cis not the role\u201d of the IDF \u201cnor is it capable of handling the enforcement of civil issues\u201d there, given the \u201cexpected welcome increase in the number of settlers\u201d, following the government\u2019s approval of new settlements.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the IDF can only temporarily detain Israeli citizens suspected of criminal activity in the West Bank, before turning them over to the Israel Police.<\/p>\n<p>Administrative restraining orders can also be issued preventing violent settlers from entering specified areas.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the move have also raised concerns that the police force reports to the national security minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/israel\/israeli-ministers-join-settler-activists-on-march-through-closed-military-zone-near-gaza-border-uu9kh56s\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Itamar Ben-Gvir<\/a>, who himself lives in a settlement and has previously said that he supports Israeli annexation of the West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katz ordered the change\u00a0following a meeting on Thursday\u00a0with IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant\u00a0General\u00a0Eyal Zamir and other senior military&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[423,37,99,14924,11207,6905],"class_list":["post-249422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israel-katz","tag-settlements","tag-settlers","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117096071997586661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249422","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=249422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}