Why does Israel focus its attacks on the northern West Bank?

For some time now, the northern West Bank has been witnessing a wave of attacks by the Israeli occupation army, with the occupation campaigns focused on the Palestinian camps in Jenin, Nablus and Tulkarm, and the most concentrated attacks and repeated campaigns in Jenin and its villages. A visitor to the city of Jenin notices the closeness of the borders between the city of Jenin and the cities inside in 1948, this in itself has been a source of concern for the occupation since Israel seized the West Bank in 1967, and this is called in military science the soft underbelly of the borders of the occupying state.

We should be more aware that the occupation continues to undermine the activity of the armed Palestinian factions in Jenin, Tulkarm and Nablus in order to eliminate the factions’ attempts to launch armed attacks deep inside historical Palestine. This also applies to Tulkarm, which is a border city, as well as Qalqilya, which is separated from the borders of the occupying state by a street no wider than 20 meters.

Moreover, Israel, in addition to providing security for its residents inside, sees the city of Jenin itself as an important location with many advantages, in addition to, as I mentioned, strengthening its soft underbelly. It seeks to control the resources of the city and the surrounding villages, as it is an extension of the Marj Ibn Amer plain, which is rich in water resources and fertile soil. This in itself is a valuable catch for the occupation, as Jenin is considered the Palestinian food basket after the Jordan Valley, which constitutes approximately 30% of the area of the West Bank. Israel has plans in the West Bank that run parallel to what is happening in Gaza. Israel has opened the Gaza front and the West Bank front at the same time, knowing that in the security and military alphabets of any army and state, those countries that wage wars and attacks against their neighbors adopt the method of cooling some fronts and heating others, and strengthening the internal front, and this is not happening today in Israel. The occupying state has opened two fronts at the same time. Although the two fronts are exhausting the occupying state, the current Israeli Prime Minister is continuing to expand the war front even if it costs him the loss of his soldiers in Gaza and the West Bank.

What is happening in the West Bank does not seem to be a preemptive war, as the picture is closer to eliminating the Palestinian factions in the West Bank, specifically its north. The issue lies in absolute control over the West Bank, and the confiscation of more land for settlement purposes. The fear and anxiety lies in what the occupation is promoting, which is part of the psychological warfare, that what is happening in Gaza will happen in the West Bank, "victory through terror." This approach may be aimed at undermining the determination and morale of the residents of the West Bank, and at the same time, Israel has been putting a lot of economic pressure on the residents of the West Bank since October 7, and it is preventing nearly a quarter of a million Palestinian workers from reaching their places of work inside Palestine. Thus, Israel has launched a comprehensive war on the West Bank, in addition to besieging Palestinian cities and villages by setting up checkpoints at the entrances to villages and cities, and building iron gates intended to close and open them whenever the occupation army wants. This situation warns of a dangerous plan that was prepared in advance and is being pushed towards it greatly today by the far-right Netanyahu government.

As for the dimension related to settler terrorism, the Israeli occupation has given the settlers a free hand to spread terror and fear in the West Bank, through the repeated attacks carried out by settler gangs from the north of the West Bank to the south of it on citizens, and the phenomenon of shooting and killing Palestinians has recently developed. This diversity in terrorism lays the foundation for the next stage, which is increasing pressure and is part of a plan to deport the residents of the West Bank. In short, what Netanyahu is doing is not only to prolong his stay in government, but there is a more dangerous dimension, and he is working within a plan that has become exposed, which is to control the entire West Bank.

After all that is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, is the two-state solution dead?

This is what Netanyahu, who is known for his sharp thinking and authoritarian decision-making even over security leaders, is working on. He is politically supported by religious extremism in Israel. The West Bank, as I mentioned in a previous article, is an integral part of the Torah, according to their claim. Control over Gaza and the West Bank comes within a plan called "Greater Israel" from the Nile to the Euphrates, the disastrous project. Unfortunately, the most dangerous thing today is that all Arabs are watching what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank without moving a finger, but they must realize that the wheel will turn on them. Certainly, the matter does not stop at this point, as is happening today in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem. This is not an analysis, but rather what their distorted Torah mentioned: "On that day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your descendants I will give this land, from the Valley of al-Arish to the great river, the Euphrates River, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites.

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What Netanyahu is doing is not only to prolong his stay in government, but there is a more dangerous dimension, and he is working within a plan that has become exposed, which is to control the entire West Bank.