Palestinians continue to face a now-regularized tempo of Israeli attacks from settlers and the military, yet this has not done away with their capacity to resist.
A Palestinian worker shot six Israeli settlers in the illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, while elsewhere the Israeli army continued its onslaught on Palestinian communities in Nablus and Aqbat Jabr refugee camp.
The fighting in Ein al-Helweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon between Fatah militants and Islamist armed groups didn’t happen in a vacuum. Lebanese analysts speculate that Israel and the PA are behind recent tensions.
Israel continued raids in the northern West Bank, including Nablus and Qalqiliya, killing 5 Palestinians in a week. Meanwhile, the Israeli judicial overhaul continues reverberating with the adoption of a new bill.
As the ruling power in Gaza, Hamas has had to balance its governmental responsibilities with its commitment to resistance. It has done so by delegating resistance to other factions and adopting the “unity of fields” strategy.
Israel’s judicial overhaul will not make a qualitative difference for Palestinians, but it does signal that the intensity of the Zionist colonial project is ramping up.
Two weeks after its massive onslaught on Jenin, the Israeli army has turned its attention to Nablus, continuing the same low-intensity counterinsurgency campaign that it has waged against Palestinian resistance for the past two years.
The protest was the latest in a number of anti-PA demonstrations by Palestinians in Jenin in recent weeks, marking yet another fissure in the deepening rift between Palestinians and the PA.
The Jenin Brigade has condemned the Palestinian Authority’s continued arrest of resistance fighters. As tensions rise, the camp enters the most dangerous phase of the counterinsurgency effort to eradicate it.
The Israeli army’s bulldozers and airstrikes not only leveled Jenin refugee camp, but paved the way for the PA to return to the camp and reassert its influence. This is the unofficial second phase of the Jenin operation.