West Bank on Fire Against Israeli Occupation

• CrossFireArabia
• August 28, 2024

What was a premonition yesterday, today it has become a reality. What did not exceed the level of fear has now become part of daily circumstance.

In Jenin, Tulkarm, Nablus, Hebron, Tubas, Qalqilya – all cities of the West Bank – it has become necessary for the Israeli occupation army to be no less vigilant than in its battle in Gaza and/or southern Lebanon according to the Palestine Information Center.

Today, the battle is taking place on the sides of Israeli army barracks, checkpoints, and headquarters. The West Bank is today not just a support front for Gaza, but has become part of the front lines against Israeli occupation.

The resistance escalation in the West Bank has been the most feared by Israel since the outbreak of the Al Aqsa Flood Battle in Gaza; it is the closest front to it and therefore the most dangerous to the occupation.

Traditional military measures of searches, raids, arrests, and setting up checkpoints are no longer of any use. The resistance has prepared itself to confront all of this and diversified its method of resistance to the occupation including detonating explosive devices in Israeli vehicles which has never happened before.

The resistance in the West bank has begun to intensify its attacks on the enemy and present its heroism and sacrifices to relieve the pressure on the Gaza Strip, suffering from the scourge of genocide and brutal massacres now for the 327th consecutive day. The number of martyrs and missing persons in Gaza has now exceeded 50,000, together with the destruction of all aspects of life in the Strip.

This is what prompted the West Bank resistance to act supporter to Gaza, with sacrifices of more than 640 martyrs and about 5,400 wounded, in addition to the thousands of detainees, since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Flood.

At the same time, the Israeli government sought to exploit the war in the Gaza Strip to implement its plans for settlement expansion and the establishment of new outposts in the West Bank with the absence of any accountability for these crimes. The extreme rightwing Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu sought to impose a new reality in Jerusalem increasing the settlers’ incursions incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque, to the point were National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir announced his intention to build a synagogue on the grounds of the holly mosque.

The Israeli policy of Palestinian assassinations increased in intensity with the escalation of the resistance against the occupation forces. Hardly a day goes by without the West Bank burying one or more of its fighters in a cowardly Israeli targeting, the latest of which was the assassination of 10 martyrs in Jenin and Tubas as part of the extensive aggression announced by the occupation army in the northern West Bank.

In a new criminal move, the occupation army announced, Tuesday, the start of what it called a “large-scale operation” in the cities of the northern West Bank of Jenin, Tulkarm, Tubas, the camps, and several neighborhoods of Nablus. According to Israeli media, the occupation army intends to destroy the infrastructure of the resistance in the northern West Bank through such aggression, describing it as the most violent and extensive since Operation Defensive Shield in 2002.

In conjunction with this announcement, the Mujahideen of Qassam Brigades, along with other resistance factions, engaged in an armed clash with the occupation forces in Tulkarm as Qassam Brigades detonated explosive devices in Israeli military vehicles as they stormed the Jenin camp, while targeting a military tower at the entrance to the Al-Arroub camp north of Hebron.

Saraya Al Quds of Islamic Jihad shot down an Israeli drone in the Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm while wounding a number of occupation soldiers at sniper positions fortified inside a house. It was also announced the detonation of an explosive device in a military bulldozer in Nablus, achieving direct injuries among its crew.

The occupation is trying to silence the voice of the resistance by committing more crimes in the West Bank but it is not succeeding as the latest military operations  of Al-Qassam Brigades fighters believe the Israeli army is drowning in a quagmire  in Nablus as fierce clashes with enemy forces in Balata camp are heightened.

The occupation’s announcement of the start of a new aggression in the West Bank, after months of escalation, is an official admission that the resistance in the West Bank is very strong, and that the Israelis know as stated by Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz on Wednesday morning:

“The threat in the West Bank must be dealt with like Gaza and a temporary evacuation of people must be implemented, as this is a war on everything.”

With this escalation, it can be said that the occupation has begun a difficult confrontation that may cost it a lot as the West Bank is causing the enemy great pain that has never been witnessed in the history of the conflict with it, and the military escalation with the Palestinian resistance groups may contribute greatly to the changing the scene taking place in Palestine, and on all axes of support.