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.
It appears Israel claimed victory in Nablus prematurely as the resistance in the city has made a resurgence, successfully detonating an IED that injured four soldiers during an Israeli invasion.
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.
A Palestinian teenager was shot in the back of the head during an Israeli raid on Jenin. Over the course of 3 days, Israeli forces arrested 120 Palestinians.
Huwwara and Hebron have been put on lockdown by the Israeli army as a manhunt has ensued following two “lone wolf” shooting operations in those areas, while Israeli settlers carry out revenge pogroms against Palestinians.
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians this week, including a 16-year-old boy. Meanwhile, 1,000 Palestinian prisoners announced a hunger strike in protest of repressive policies by the Israel Prison Service under the control of Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The past few months have witnessed a worrying increase in Israeli settler attacks, many of which have turned deadly. Those attacks are continuing on a daily basis in the West Bank, with full impunity for the settlers.
This week unfolded in what has become a regular succession of punitive home demolitions, “lone wolf” attacks on settlers, mass arrests, Israeli military raids, extrajudicial killings, and political unrest.
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.