The IDF has evacuated about 40,000 Palestinians from the northern West Bank since January 21, the most in decades, Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday. Military sources contradicted Katz, stating that he was using unreliable data from UNRWA. Katz's statement came shortly after the IDF confirmed it was using more tanks and more aggressive methods in the West Bank than it has employed in decades. Meanwhile, Netanyahu demanded that southern Syria be demilitarized and the IDF carried out a precise strike on rocket launchers in southern Lebanon that Hezbollah operatives were working with.