Israel's war on Palestinian camps... where to?

Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said yesterday that Israel has officially declared war on refugee camps in the West Bank, during his storming of the Jenin camp, which Israel has been attacking since January 21.

Katz's statements announcing the launch of a war on what he called Palestinian "terrorism", and his claim that the large-scale military operation in the West Bank aims to defeat activists and militants funded by Iran, are pure fabrications. The goals that Israel is monitoring are much greater than a military campaign, because we are talking here about a systematic war, waged by Israel with the motive of destroying all the components of life for Palestinians in the camps and displacing and expelling them. This is what is actually happening on the ground, through decisions to expel dozens of families from their homes, demolishing and burning about 100 homes, assassinating 20 citizens, and injuring and arresting dozens. This leads us to say that Israel's goals are moving towards more extremism in its policy of dealing with the Palestinian camps and trying to completely eliminate the right of return.

The Palestinian camps have always been centers of radiation for broadcasting and spreading national awareness, amidst feelings of belonging, despite the flames of wars waged by Israel against the pioneers of thought and struggle, who emerged from the heart of the camps and their stories and studied in the schools of the Relief Agency, and formed a thick wall that preserved the camps and their secrets, and drew pictures bearing witness to the shrines of the martyrs, amidst a modest social life in which there is much love, sacrifice, loyalty, memories and nostalgia.

This life that followed the Palestinian Nakba in 1948, and the subsequent catastrophes in 1967 and the successive Israeli wars, the last of which was the sinful aggression on the Gaza Strip, which caused successive catastrophes, in which the refugees experienced the bitterness of displacement, exclusion, evacuation and deportation, and lived in tents whose pegs were torn away by the winds and drowned in the rains of winter, and whose inhabitants were tormented by the heat in the summer, did not please Israel, which sees the camps as centers of “terrorism,” so it decided to impose displacement and loss on the people of these camps, and this is what its features began to appear in the Jenin camp for the tenth consecutive day and the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps for the fourth consecutive day.

It seems that the Israeli campaign is targeting the entire West Bank, after last night's bombing in Tamoun, which led to the martyrdom of ten people, in a major Israeli crime that is added to its series of crimes full of horrific massacres against the Palestinians. The goals are undoubtedly topped by the goal of killing Palestinians, destroying their lives, displacing them, expelling them, and ending the Palestinian cause that is deeply rooted in people's minds forever. Evidence of this is Katz's statement in which he said that the occupation army will remain in Jenin even after the end of Operation Iron Wall, which means a new occupation of Jenin.