Jenin, the first chapter of the Israeli massacre in the West Bank

Last Saturday, in the Jerusalem Talk, we referred to the coming massacre in the West Bank, after the blatant incitement by Israeli government ministers, considering that the decision of the security and political cabinet to amend the objectives of the war to include the West Bank is a direct and official statement to launch a large-scale war on citizens and civilians, in addition to the statements of the head of the Shin Bet at the time that the release of Palestinian prisoners will increase the motivation to carry out new attacks in the West Bank, and the statements of Defense Minister Katz, who considered the decision to cancel administrative detention orders against settlers a message to support and strengthen settlement, and in another place he called for shooting at Palestinians to prevent them from showing any signs of welcoming the released prisoners.

This is how the story began with a war of statements and threats, the most important of which was the statement of the resigned Chief of Staff who gave orders to prepare to launch qualitative military campaigns in the West Bank, with Jenin being placed as the first target in a new Israeli massacre, the chapters of which began yesterday with a deadly invasion, which resulted in the martyrdom of ten citizens and the injury of more than 50 citizens, some of whom were doctors working in Jenin’s hospitals and health centers.

Israel chose the date of its military campaign and aggression just after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, fearing that a Security Council resolution would be vetoed by the Biden administration. The new aggression is also a gift from the latter to the extremist parties in Netanyahu’s government, especially to the extremist minister Bezalel Smotrich, who set the goal of the West Bank incursions, along with the resumption of the aggression on Gaza, as conditions for not resigning from the Israeli government.

Israel received another gift from President-elect Trump, who cancelled the emergency law that allows the United States to impose sanctions on settlers, and the Israeli government exploited this to give settlers free rein to carry out heinous attacks on citizens, while Jenin was the first chapter of the new massacre, on a day when the roads and checkpoints of the West Bank were almost completely closed, amid blatant incitement from the Israeli media.

The storming and invasion of Jenin and the northern West Bank, which is scheduled on the upcoming targets’ calendar, is an unmistakable declaration of war, through which the occupying state seeks to empty the West Bank’s camps and villages and displace and expel its people, by continuing the war for several additional days, as an Israeli military official claimed, saying that the war on Jenin will continue for a long time.

As usual, Israel shows its true face, which is based only on killing, destruction and raids. Who will intervene to protect the people of Jenin, and who will stop the machine of killing, destruction and slaughter that has never had its fill of the blood of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip?