Four Palestinians were killed in the span of 24 hours, including a teenager that was killed in a settler attack on the Nablus-area town of Huwwara.
Amid the Jewish holiday season, Palestinians across the occupied territory pay the price, as settlers increase their attacks and the military and police restrict Palestinian access to holy places.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement that the Israeli Prison Service was “obstructing lawyer visits” to hunger-striking prisoner Kayed al-Fasfous.
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.
Israeli forces killed six Palestinians over the course of 24 hours. In the wake of Israel’s deadly operation in the Jenin refugee camp on Tuesday, Palestinian resistance groups across the West Bank claimed responsibility for a number of operations targeting Israeli military posts in the occupied territory.
The Palestinian Authority has not let it up on its campaign of arresting resistance fighters, recently leading to rising tensions and armed confrontations in Jenin. But despite the PA’s efforts, resistance brigades continue to spread.
The Palestinian Authority reportedly received a shipment of armored vehicles and weapons from the U.S. government as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to aid joint Israeli-Palestinian Authority efforts to quash Palestinian resistance.
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.
The West Bank has become a crucial front for the battle over political legitimacy among Palestinian factions as a new phase of armed resistance rises.