No doubts: Israel seeks another uprising "Intifada" in West Bank

Three and a half hours. Three and a half hours from Jenin to Tulkarm. In three and a half hours, you can travel to Rome, or to Eilat. However, in the occupied West Bank, traveling between two cities is difficult. 

This is the time it took us to reach Jenin from Tulkarm, 35 kilometers. Since the beginning of the war, there has been a closed gate at the end of every road in the West Bank. The "Waze" application guides you to travel through it, as even this smart application does not know that there is a closed gate on every road.

If there is no closed gate, there is a barrier that passes cars slowly. 

If there is no barrier that allows cars to pass slowly, then there is a barrier that does not allow cars to pass at all. Next to the Ottoman train station in Sebastia, some reserve soldiers stand, preventing vehicles from even passing on this side dirt road. In addition to the Shavei Shomron settlement, there are soldiers who allow travel from south to north, but prevent travel the opposite way. Why? There is no answer. The soldiers at the next checkpoint take selfies, and the vehicles wait for them to finish taking the photo and give them a hand gesture that allows them to pass, and the crisis becomes longer.

The "Annab" checkpoint, which we passed in the morning, was closed to vehicle traffic in the afternoon. Can't know anything. As for the “Huwara” checkpoint, it is also closed, and the exit is closed, as is the case with most exits from villages to the main streets. This is how we traveled this week, like cockroaches in a bottle, for 3 and a half hours from Jenin to Tulkarm, in order to reach Route 557 and return to Israel.

This is the life of Palestinians in the West Bank recently. By evening, thousands of vehicles were lined on both sides of the road in the West Bank, desperately parked by their owners. They stood, unable to do anything out of sheer desperation. You must see the fear in their eyes when they approach the barrier, as every incorrect movement can lead to their death. You could blow them up.

A person can explode in anger when he sees that Israel is now doing everything possible to push the West Bank into another intifada. This will not be easy. There is no leadership in the West Bank, nor a fighting spirit like the Second Intifada, but how can it not explode? About 150 thousand workers were working in Israel; Now, they have not been working for 3 months. A person can also explode in anger because of the hypocrisy of the army. Its leaders warn that Palestinian workers must be allowed to go out to work, but it is the army that will be responsible for the Palestinian uprising if it breaks out. The problem is not only economic.

Under the cover of war, and with the help of the far-right government, the army has dangerously changed its behavior in the West Bank. He wants Gaza in the West Bank. The settlers want Gaza in the West Bank to push the Palestinians out, and the army supports them. The data is difficult: according to United Nations data, 344 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank, including 88 children. 8 or 9 of them were killed by settlers. During the same period, 5 Israelis were killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, 4 of whom were killed by security forces.

The reason for this is that in recent months the army has begun using air strikes to kill in the West Bank, as well as in Gaza. For example, on January 7, the army killed 7 young men on a road near Jenin, after one of them apparently fired an explosive device at an army jeep. A massacre was committed: 7 young men who were members of one family, 4 brothers, 2 brothers, and a cousin. This does not matter to Israel. Now, the army is transferring forces from Gaza to the West Bank: the “Devdovan” unit is now there; And "Kafir" is on the way. They will return to the West Bank, poisoned by the indiscriminate killing in Gaza, and they want to continue their great work in the West Bank as well.

Israel wants an uprising. You might as well get it. The important thing is that, don't be surprised when it happens.