Black Thursday

The people of Jenin have called the harshest day of their lives Black Thursday, as dozens of families were expelled from their homes in Jenin camp and the Israeli army forces expelled and removed them from their cherished places of residence.

Neither young children, nor women, nor the elderly were spared from the expulsion process, as the occupation gave them a specific opportunity to leave the camp amid military measures that turned the camp into a closed barracks, surrounded by the army from all sides, and brought in very heavy machinery to demolish the camp and destroy its infrastructure, in addition to the assassinations of civilian citizens, the besieging of doctors and nurses, preventing ambulance crews and paramedics from reaching the injured, and endangering the lives of journalists and media professionals, to dissuade them from conveying the facts.

Another catastrophe is being experienced by Jenin camp, just as it is in Gaza, where the Israeli army command responded to the calls of extremist ministers who demanded that the village of Al-Funduq, which witnessed a shooting operation two weeks ago, and Jenin and Nablus become like Jabalia, which the occupation wiped off the list of existence by destroying its landmarks, but it will remain firmly rooted in the minds and conscience and will certainly be rebuilt.

Unfortunately, Jenin is living a reality similar to Gaza. The Israeli military operation there is different from previous operations. The intention this time is to destroy and kill all the elements of life. This has been proven on the ground through the rampant violence among some who have turned their threats regarding Jenin into a difficult and bitter reality.

It seems that the aggression on Jenin will last longer this time for flimsy reasons and justifications, which were discussed by the resigned Chief of Staff of the Occupation Army, Herzi Halevi, who claimed that the Jenin camp has become a place where those who wish to carry out operations, or those who have already carried out operations, head, demanding that the army continue the operation, which is considered to be in its early stages, pointing to other areas in the northern West Bank that the aggression may target, which is what the head of the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, indicated when he described the battle as having multiple fronts, and that it will move from one place to another.

Black Thursday, as the people of Jenin said, is just one of the black days that remind us of the raids on Jenin and previous battles, and the catastrophes of Gaza that the occupation decided to transfer to the West Bank, which has become the primary target of the war at this stage.

The invasion of the rest of the West Bank is a matter of time for the occupation forces, who have decided to continue their aggression against our people and tighten the noose around them in all aspects and components of their lives. The measures of punishment and revenge against citizens at the checkpoints of anger are only the beginning of a critical and sensitive phase that our struggling people will experience, and they will inevitably be stronger than all the occupation measures, and will defeat them forever.