Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will control the territory from the Jordan River to the sea, during a visit to the separation line in the West Bank: “We are safeguarding the area from the Jordan River to the sea.

Our country, our control,” he declared, according to the Jerusalem Post. During the same visit, he called the Tulkarm camp a terrorist stronghold and rejected the Supreme Court order on the return of displaced Palestinians: “I heard that someone at the High Court of Justice says the residents should be brought back here. These are not residents; they are terrorists.”