Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed at a cabinet meeting on Sunday to expand operations against Palestinian in the West Bank, after a deadly Friday shootout sparked when settlers illegally entered a Nablus-area village.

Axar.az reports, citing The Times of Israel, that Katz took Democrats party chief Yair Golan to task for blaming the gunfight on settler extremists and the government. Other ministers at the meeting called for a harsh response against Palestinians, and for the Israel Defense Forces to give troops greater leeway to open fire, according to leaks carried by Hebrew media.

The weekly cabinet meeting was held in a secure underground location for unspecified security reasons, amid concern of an escalation in the war with Iran, even after the US over the weekend paused its nightly strikes on the Islamic Republic.

Speaking at the start of the meeting, Netanyahu said that during his trip to the US this week he and US President Donald Trump would discuss “all the issues currently on the agenda, including the situation in Iran.”