“Unprecedented terror” continues to haunt Palestinians in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank, two days after the Israeli army concluded a 52-hour-long invasion which killed 14 residents.
Israeli drone strikes have killed nine Palestinians in Nablus and Tulkarem during a massive ongoing army operation in the West Bank. As many as a 1,000 Palestinians have been detained in what locals are calling a “collective punishment” campaign.
Israeli forces raided Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, where they killed three young Palestinian men, shooting at their incapacitated bodies before running over them.
Israel’s recent 38-hour invasion of the Nour Shams refugee camp escalated its assault on armed resistance in the West Bank. Fighters from the Tulkarem Brigade tell Mondoweiss, “resistance will not end as one generation passes it to the next.”
Israeli settlers conducted attacks against Palestinians and their property across the occupied West Bank, including a settler’s ramming of a young disabled Palestinian man, and settlers pepper-spraying a four-year-old in the face.
Thirty years after the Oslo Accords were designed to institute Palestinian defeat, resistance continues, and so does the cycle of loss.
Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in separate incidents on September 5. Meanwhile, both Israel and the PA step up their attacks against Palestinian resistance fighters in the West Bank.
Tulkarem, Nablus, and Jenin have historically made up the “triangle of fire,” demarcating a geographic entity hostile to colonial rule. Today, the Tulkarem Brigade is fighting to preserve that legacy.