Ticking time bomb: West Bank is Israel’s next volatile border – opinion
Peloni: This is an important report.
Just as in the North, the question of a major war breaking out is when, not if.
By Eric R. Mandel | July 14, 2024
AN IDF soldier walks along the barrier surrounding Kalkilya, on the seam line. (photo credit: Courtesy Eric Mandel)
I recently visited with the new IDF Panther battalion created specifically to deal with the growing threat of Hamas and other jihadist groups on Israel’s seam line, the boundary between the northern West Bank (Samaria) and Israel’s narrow waistline, only nine miles to the Mediterranean Sea.
The seam line is part of the 1949 Armistice line (Green Line or 1967 line) that runs north to south on the western border of the West Bank, close to Israel’s major coastal cities, including Tel Aviv. Two large Palestinian cities, Tulkarm and Kalkilya, are on the seam line.













