Bibi orders "massive" counter-terror operation after bus bombings

We can thank G-d anti-Israel terrorists don't know how to tell time very well. 

Explosive devices went off on Thursday night around 9 p.m. local time in the central city of Bat Yam, a little south of Tel Aviv. Thankfully, the person or persons who set the devices had planned on them exploding during the morning rush hour before the Sabbath at 9 a.m., but set them 12 hours earlier. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu ordered on that night for the military to conduct a “massive” counter-terrorism operation in Judea and Samaria, after the buses exploded and bombs were found on two others in what is being investigated as a coordinated attack.

It appears the terrorists were planning a second October 7 attack but their mistake, an actual miracle, probably saved countless lives. 

Bibi also instructed the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Israel Police to step up “preventive activities” against possible future attacks across the Jewish State.

Following a situational assessment on Thursday, the IDF said its operations in Judea and Samaria were ongoing, and that areas within the territories have been closed off.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi instructed the military to assist the Israel Police as necessary.

The IDF also announced the deployment of three additional battalions to reinforce security in Judea and Samaria, adding that it was “prepared to expand the offensive operations.” An IDF battalion has about 400 troops, so that would be 1,200 in total, about the same number of people that were slaughtered by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Payback is a bitch, they say.

All of the explosions on Thursday occurred in parked, empty buses across the central city of Bat Yam, located just south of Tel Aviv. There were no injuries in the attack because the terrorists are low-functioning.

At least one of the bombs had a note, in Arabic and Hebrew, that stated, “Revenge from the Tulkarem refugee camp,” a reference to the terrorist hotbed in Samaria where security forces have been conducting operations, Channel 12 News reported.

Five explosive devices, all with timers set to go off simultaneously, were found in what was intended to be a “strategic terrorist attack,” Channel 12 cited security sources as saying.

The Shin Bet was called to the scenes, and all bus drivers in the Tel Aviv metropolitan were instructed to search their vehicles for bombs.

Israeli transport minister Miri Regev instructed the National Public Transport Authority to “stop and inspect all buses, trains and light rail cars and act in accordance with the instructions of the Shin Bet and the police.”

Defense Minister Israel Katz directed the IDF to increase “the intensity of activities to thwart terrorism in the Tulkarm refugee camp and in the refugee camps in Judea and Samaria in general,” following what he called “attempted serious terrorist attacks.

“We will pursue the terrorists to the bitter end and destroy the terrorist infrastructure in the camps that serve as a frontline for the Iranian axis of evil,” Katz said.

It's time for Israel to get violent and release their shock and awe with the same fury the Palestinians, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad did on October 7th. But unlike them, Israel should take no hostages.

Am Yisrael Chai.

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