In the coming months, wide-scale Israeli military operations and expanding settlements in the West Bank will further weaken the Palestinian Authority and put the territory at greater risk of uprising, leading to widespread violence that spills over into Israel and to the diplomatic isolation of Israel. On Aug. 30, the Israel Defense Forces killed the chief commander of Hamas in the West Bank and two other militants in the city of Jenin. The killing came shortly after the IDF on Aug. 28 began wide-scale ground operations and drone strikes around the northern West Bank in the Jenin and Tulkarem areas. The IDF operations appear among the largest since the end of the Second Intifada in 2005, and involved bulldozers, armored vehicles and drones.