Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Monday for genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in the cities of Nablus and Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, as Tel Aviv is doing in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.

With this call, Smotrich commented, in a statement, on the killing of 3 Israeli settlers and the wounding of 7 as a result of gunfire near Kedumim, the settlement in which he lives, east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank.

Smotrich said: "Bunduq (a Palestinian town), Nablus and Jenin must be like Jabalia, so that Kfar Saba does not become like the infidels of Gaza."

Since last October, the Israeli army has been intensifying its extermination of Palestinians in Jabalia camp, through continuous bloody bombing and a tight siege that prevents the entry of food, water and medicine, in order to force them to flee south.

Kfar Gaza is an Israeli settlement adjacent to the Gaza Strip that was among the settlements attacked on October 7, 2023, while Kfar Saba is an Israeli town near the northern West Bank.

On that day, Hamas attacked 22 settlements and 11 military bases adjacent to Gaza, killing and capturing Israelis, in response to “the daily crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and their holy sites, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque,” according to the movement.

Smotrich also called for an urgent session of the Security Cabinet to discuss the situation in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since the June 5, 1967 war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement: "We will find the killers and hold them and everyone who helped them accountable. No one will escape punishment."

Defense Minister Yisrael Katz wrote on the X platform: “We will not allow the reality in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) to be the same as it was in the Gaza Strip.”

He added: "Whoever follows the path of Hamas in Gaza and sponsors the killing and harming of Jews will pay a heavy price," according to his expression.

Earlier on Monday, the Red Star of David (Israeli ambulance service) announced that 3 Israelis were killed and 7 injured in a drive-by shooting at a bus and cars carrying settlers.

Later, the Israeli army closed off the city of Qalqilya and towns in the northern West Bank, sent military reinforcements, and began combing operations in search of the shooters.

In parallel with the war of extermination that it has been committing in Gaza since October 7, 2023, the Israeli army and settlers have escalated their attacks in the West Bank, resulting in the killing of 838 Palestinians and the injury of about 6,700 others, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

While the Israeli genocide in Gaza left about 155 thousand Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11 thousand missing, amidst massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and elderly people, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

Tel Aviv continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on November 21 against Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinians in Gaza.

For decades, Israel has occupied lands in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, and refuses to withdraw from them and establish an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, on the borders before the 1967 war.