IDF to warn cabinet not to extend cease-fire to W. Bank | Jerusalem Post

IDF to warn cabinet not to extend cease-fire to W. Bank | Jerusalem Post: "The security cabinet is to hold a debate Sunday on whether to expand the Gaza Strip cease-fire to the West Bank, with senior security officials warning that such a move could lead to a spike in terrorism.

To back their argument that continued IDF activity was necessary in the West Bank, senior IDF sources in the Central Command said that last week alone Palestinians tried smuggling some 10 pipe bombs out of Nablus through the Hawara Checkpoint, south of the city.

'The terror here never stops and only grows,' one officer said of the West Bank. 'The only way to keep it under control is by retaining our presence in the territory.'" Read complete post here.