On Sunday, Israel began implementing "retaliatory" decisions against the Palestinians in response to the two recent operations in occupied Jerusalem, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the deployment of additional security reinforcements and promised to strengthen settlements.
The retaliatory measures approved by the Netanyahu government accelerated on Saturday evening, as the occupation authorities closed the home of the martyr Khairi Alqam, the perpetrator of the Neve Yacoub settlement attack in occupied Jerusalem, which took place on Friday, in which 7 Israelis were killed.
On Sunday, the occupation bulldozers demolished the house of the Ratib Shuqairat family in Jabal Mukaber in occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of not having a permit.
Simultaneously, extremist settlers burned a Palestinian house and vehicles in the village of Turmusaya, near Ramallah, in the West Bank.
And the implementation of retaliatory measures began while the settlers who were killed in the "Neve Yaakov" process were being buried, and in light of the escalation of the Israeli rhetoric, as there were calls for escalation with the Palestinians and tightening the screws on them, especially in the neighborhoods of Jerusalem.
Reinforcements and expansion of settlement
Meanwhile, the Israeli Prime Minister decided to reinforce the Israeli police with army companies to assist them in Jerusalem and the areas near the contact line.
Netanyahu said Sunday during a government meeting that the measures against the Palestinians include confiscating the right to housing, residence and citizenship for the families of the perpetrators of the attacks, depriving them of services and grants provided by the National Insurance Institute, facilitating the granting of licenses to possess weapons to Israelis, and strengthening settlement in the West Bank.
He also said that his government is not looking for escalation, but is ready to deal with every possibility, adding that the response to what he called terrorism will be "with a heavy and accurate hand," as he put it.
For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, after a security assessment in the West Bank, that Israel would not hesitate to act against what he described as terrorism, but he expressed his hope that calm and stability would be restored on the ground, he said.
Two martyrs in the West Bank
Meanwhile, on Sunday, Omar Al-Saadi (24 years old) died of injuries he sustained during the recent Israeli incursion into Jenin camp, in which 9 Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed.
Hours earlier, Karam Ali Salman, 18, from the village of Qusin in Nablus, was killed by Israeli bullets near the Kedumim settlement, east of Qalqilya, claiming that he was trying to carry out a shooting attack in the settlement.
In other developments, the Israeli occupation forces arrested, until Saturday morning, about 50 citizens of occupied Jerusalem, following the two operations in which Israelis were killed and injured.
Blinton upon his arrival at Cairo Airport (Anatolia)
blinkin tour
Diplomatically, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived Sunday in Cairo as part of a tour that includes the Palestinian territories and Israel.
Blinken is expected to discuss during this tour the escalation in the Palestinian territories, easing tensions, preserving the historical situation in occupied Jerusalem, the two-state solution and other files.
Simultaneously, CIA Director William Burns continues his talks with Israeli officials, before moving to Ramallah to meet Palestinian political and security leaders.
Washington condemned the Jerusalem operation, in which Israelis were killed, and affirmed its commitment to Israel's security. However, US officials indicated the need to reduce escalation.