Within 16 hours of aggression...destruction, sabotage and punishment of civilians

Analysts to "I": The occupation's continued targeting of Jenin and its camp is an embodiment of displacement plans

During the recent occupation aggression on the city and camp of Jenin last Wednesday, the occupation inflicted, within 16 hours, losses that were many times greater than the previous aggression at the beginning of this month, which lasted 10 days, due to the extent of the destruction and sabotage carried out.

The occupation bulldozers are in all aspects of life and infrastructure. They did not just re-destroy the already destroyed streets, but they also isolated several areas and neighborhoods. The three main entrances to the camp have become closed, and citizens cannot move or pass through them. The center of the eastern neighborhood has also been isolated along Khalid bin al-Walid Mosque Street, and communication has been cut off. Al-Naseem Street, which connects Jenin to the eastern villages, has also been destroyed.

The head of the Chamber of Commerce, Ammar Abu Bakr, explained in his interview with “I” that the aggression aimed at destruction and planned sabotage to paralyze people’s lives and commercial movement and isolate neighborhoods and communities, which exacerbates the suffering of citizens.

He added: "Movement has become paralyzed and even the road to schools and inside the camp has become impossible and vehicles cannot pass, while the aggression has led to the destruction of water and sewage networks and a complete water outage, because the occupation has destroyed the main sources of water supply."

He added: "The occupation wanted to make life impossible, as part of the siege and pressure on citizens and destroying their lives. Hundreds of citizens were detained inside their homes, and shops and homes in Jenin and the camp were destroyed."

The occupation forces continue to target the city and camp of Jenin, under the pretext of pursuing those they call wanted persons, in light of the failure of their previous campaigns to strike the infrastructure of the resistance that confronts the occupation in every aggression. The development of their capabilities in manufacturing local explosive devices has proven to be the most important weapon in resisting the occupation, which has led to heavy losses, whether in the killing and wounding of soldiers or the destruction of military vehicles. Therefore, the occupation focused in its latest aggression last Wednesday on targeting the popular incubator and imposing sanctions on it by targeting its homes and commercial interests, including shops, stalls, vehicles and other necessities of life.

Throughout the aggression, Israeli bulldozers did not stop destroying, vandalizing and attacking homes. According to the mayor, Nidal Obeidi, the occupation practiced a policy of iron fist and collective punishment to pressure citizens and double their suffering and losses in light of the tragic conditions and economic collapse that Jenin and its camp are experiencing, which has become unprecedentedly compounded by the measures and restrictions imposed before October 7, which have become more severe after the war on Gaza. He added, “Jenin Governorate is today a disaster area in every sense of the word. There are no longer any elements of life or infrastructure. The occupation practiced systematic destruction until the water was cut off and there are no longer any sewage networks, and the commercial market is on the verge of collapse.”

The people of Jenin and its camp view with great concern the aggression practiced by the occupation during the last raid, even though it only lasted a few hours. Everyone is wondering about the dimensions and messages of the occupation from this operation in light of its rapid withdrawal in light of the ongoing threats and incitement from the leaders and ministers of the extreme right in Netanyahu’s government to wipe out Jenin and its camp from existence.

Writer and analyst Adnan Al-Sabah believes that what is happening in the West Bank, especially Jenin, is the true face of the occupation government’s project to implement the plan of forced displacement and expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank.

The aggression on Jenin and its camp coincided with the height of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and the continuation of the war of genocide in Gaza. Al-Sabah told “Y”: “The occupation finds a golden opportunity for itself in light of the global preoccupation with what is happening in both Gaza and Lebanon, and the world’s preoccupation with many issues. Therefore, the story in the West Bank and Jenin has become much smaller for the world to be preoccupied with. Therefore, this is its opportunity that allows it to do whatever it wants and desires to make the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank an impossible, difficult and harsh life and push them backwards in all forms.”

He continued: "The real project of the occupying state and the United States is in the West Bank. This is the project, and everything that is happening on the other fronts is to prevent any force from obstructing the Zionist project in the West Bank. The occupying state may make concessions in any place in one way or another, but it cannot give up its project in the West Bank."

The project and its objectives..

Al-Sabah saw that this project is the original one for it and is based on eliminating the Palestinian presence in the West Bank, and he said: “It is not necessarily eliminating the presence in the individual and personal sense, but eliminating the presence of the cause, and this is what it has been striving for since its existence and since the setback of 1967. Any project proposed, any issue proposed, any solutions proposed, eliminates the Zionist project, as the occupation has always been against it and in confrontation with it.”

He added: "The occupation seeks to achieve this by all means, and what is happening in Jenin is an example of what the occupying state is planning, to make the lives of Palestinians impossible on the ground in the Palestinian territories, and to push them towards individual salvation. It does not want mass displacement, which is not considered a solution for it, because mass displacement is survival in the collective sense. If you take the Palestinians, for example, even if they could, to Jordan or Egypt, this means the existence of the same group, the same culture, and the same issue together, but on the borders and not inside the land, and this will not end the issue in any way."

The Israeli General War..

Researcher and writer Sari Samour considered that what is happening in Jenin is part of the general Israeli war in the region, in Palestine and outside it. He told “Y”: “Israel has reached the stage of applying Jabotinsky’s theory, which means that Israel’s borders include all of Mandatory Palestine in addition to Sinai, part of Jordan, and southern Lithuania, i.e. part of Lebanon, from the Euphrates to the Nile. This is what the Europeans promised them.”

He added: "The circumstances facing Israel, its strategic and military circumstances, do not allow it to do so, but the crazy and unlimited American support for it has given it arrogance, unnatural strength and excess power to implement what it wants. The aggression on the West Bank comes because it is considered part of their state."

He continued: "There are 800 to 850 thousand settlers in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, which is home to more than 3 million or 3.5 million Palestinians, and they want to deport them, but at the current stage there is no room, so they want to turn areas in the West Bank into uninhabitable areas."

Researcher Samour said: “What angers and oppresses the Israelis is the absence of settlements in Jenin, due to its history of resistance. Therefore, they want Jenin to have a special status in the displacement plan. Therefore, the aggression against it is repeated, and we notice that the living and life of the citizen in Jenin has become difficult, and cannot be compared to the West Bank.”

“The people of Jenin see that their reality cannot be compared to the tragedies and setbacks of Gaza, and this is a matter that is practically established, and this is a constant feeling among the people of Jenin, who are known for being perhaps the area that has shown the most solidarity with Gaza, and they consider this a duty, but as for the normal life that Jenin is accustomed to, it has changed, and everything has become difficult and bad due to the occupation and its practices,” he added, “All these circumstances in light of an economic situation that is gradually collapsing in Jenin, with the interruption of salaries, closure, siege, and successive attacks and their effects of victims and destruction, to which is added an aggression that lasted 16 hours, preceded by incursions and an invasion that lasted 10 days and the increase in the number of martyrs, with the size of the attacks and the geography of Jenin since 2002, the goal is to turn Jenin into an area that is unfit for life.”

Continuous failure of the occupation..

Researcher Sammour confirmed that the occupation's move to re-destroy what it had previously destroyed in Jenin and its camp aims to prevent people from living their lives normally, as they no longer have any special roads to the gates of winter.

He said: "All practices lead to the complete disruption and destruction of the life system, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, which the people call legitimate resistance. These arguments have become ridiculous and vulgar. In the last aggression, there was no targeting or achievement of military objectives, the resistance, individuals or places used by the resistance, but rather the destruction of the lives of citizens to strike the popular incubator, which confirmed its support for and rallying behind the resistance."

He added: "The citizens are clearly aware of the objectives of the occupation's methods and policies of collective punishment to implement a plan to forcibly displace and empty the land of its inhabitants. Therefore, their message is clear: steadfastness, solidarity, and rallying around the resistance no matter the cost. This means continued failure for the occupation."

long term process

Writer and analyst Dr. Mahmoud Khalouf, an expert in communications and public relations, told “Y”: “What happened is part of a long-term process that took place over multiple stages. The occupation seeks to strike the popular incubator of the resistance, and on the other hand, it wants and is determined to make Jenin and its camp a repellent environment, lacking the minimum requirements for a decent human life.”

He added: “In every raid, there is a plan to monitor from the air and from the ground any valuable target in order to assassinate it, and this happened in previous raids, but this time God has been merciful, but part of what Israel is practicing is implementing two types of pressure on the authority that is imposed on it to contribute to compensation, as well as pushing local authorities, municipalities, electricity and telephone companies towards economic crises, so that they are almost unable to provide a distinctive quality service, and this is linked to the goal that the occupation is pushing the northern West Bank to be an environment that repels residents, hoping that it will push the indirect immigration plan forward.”