Palestinian Islamic Jihad has released a new propaganda video from the West Bank, revealing one of its active IED laboratories where operatives are shown mixing chemicals, welding metal tubes, and assembling explosives intended for attacks on Israel Defense Forces patrols. The footage includes instructions, militant speeches, and links to PIJ’s Saraya al-Quds media network, all aimed at inciting further violence and recruiting additional fighters.

The video confirms what counterterror experts have been warning: Islamic Jihad is accelerating its operations in the West Bank and attempting to build a sustained insurgency against Israel. A month ago, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Long War Journal reported a sharp rise in PIJ activity across the territory, including weapons manufacturing, small-cell organization, and coordination with Gaza-based leadership. The new footage provides visual evidence of this escalation, highlighting a sophisticated IED-production pipeline that mirrors methods used by PIJ in Gaza and Iranian-backed militias abroad.

PIJ’s use of residential areas to build bombs once again demonstrates its deliberate strategy of embedding military infrastructure within civilian populations. By placing chemical stockpiles, detonators, and explosive materials inside populated districts, the group not only endangers Palestinian families but also seeks to provoke Israeli responses that can be manipulated for propaganda.

For Israel, the release of this video adds urgency to ongoing counterterror operations in the West Bank, where IDF units have been conducting regular raids to dismantle cells before they can launch attacks. According to Israeli security officials, the discovery of IED labs has become increasingly common in recent months, and PIJ’s attempts to professionalize its bomb-making efforts represent a growing threat to soldiers and civilians alike.

From a pro-Israel, Trump-aligned security perspective, this moment underscores why strong intelligence operations, robust counterterror laws, and uncompromising pressure on Iranian-backed networks remain essential. PIJ’s latest display is not merely a propaganda stunt—it is a warning of the terror infrastructure being built in real time, inside territory the Palestinian Authority is failing to control.

Israel’s message is unequivocal: the IDF will not allow the West Bank to become another Gaza, and any group manufacturing explosives for use against Israeli forces will be confronted swiftly, directly, and decisively.