West Bank 'on the brink of implosion', says Israeli military

According to Israeli defence officials, the occupied West Bank is "on the brink of an implosion", the country's left leaning daily Haaretz reported on Tuesday. 

The Israeli army, said Haaretz, attributed the cause of increasing tensions in the West Bank to the government's failure to make decisions that would improve Palestinian's financial situations in the West Bank.

As a result the Israeli army transferred the elite Duvdevan unit from fighting in Gaza to the West Bank over the weekend, due to the army's fears of an escalation in the territory.

The Israeli army has been warning the right-wing Israeli government that a refusal to allow West Bank Palestinians to resume working in Israel and a refusal to carry out a tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority, is pushing the West Bank to boiling point.

Nearly night raids by the Israeli army and settler attacks on Palestinians has also dramatically increased tensions in the West Bank.