West Bank incursions.. A rolling plan for displacement and institutionalizing annexation

Dr. Hussein Al-Daik: Israel seeks to establish a reality that does not allow for the establishment of any independent Palestinian political entity, but rather limits it to merely service and administrative rights.

Antoine Shalhat: What is happening warns of an extremely dangerous situation as Israel seeks to institutionalize annexation and an apartheid system while preventing any progress towards a two-state solution.

Noor Awda: Israel's strategic goal is to force Palestinians to submit or leave, and what is happening in the West Bank is a clear attempt at ethnic cleansing.

Dr. Amjad Bishkar: The next phase may witness greater escalation in the West Bank as part of a plan aimed at imposing a new reality before the Israeli elections.

Sari Samour: The occupation exploits military operations to confuse the population and divert their attention from a "large settlement project" being worked on in the West Bank.

Nabhan Khreisha: The escalation in the West Bank is part of a long-term strategic pattern aimed at emptying the land of its inhabitants and changing the realities on the ground.

In light of the escalation of military operations and incursions in several governorates, especially in Tubas and the northern Jordan Valley, a clear Israeli strategy is unfolding aimed at dismantling the cohesion of the West Bank on both geographical and social levels, making it a repulsive environment towards displacement, and achieving annexation and imposing Israeli sovereignty.

Writers, political analysts, specialists, and university professors, in separate conversations with "Y," believe that there are systematic attempts to weaken the societal structure: from field executions, house demolitions, to random arrests, closure of civil institutions, control over resources, and practices and assaults by settlers, all of which are seen as part of a larger scheme to create a burdensome submissive environment that pushes towards displacement and lacks the capacity for resistance or collective movement.

They emphasize that all of this is taking place within the context of re-engineering the geopolitical reality of the West Bank, so that all Palestinian communities become fragmented, isolated, and prone to collapse under constant pressure, while the ultimate goal appears to be solidifying a reality that excludes the establishment of any independent Palestinian political entity, reducing the solution to merely service and administrative rights.

Transforming the West Bank into a fragmented, exhausted space

Professor of Political Science and specialist in American affairs and international relations Dr. Hussein Al-Daik warns that the Israeli military operation in Tubas, in particular, and other practices in other areas, reveal a central aspect of the Israeli strategy aimed at geographically and socially dismantling the West Bank, and "transforming it into an exhausted, fragmented space, incapable of producing a unified resistance or political movement in the future."

Al-Daik clarifies that the repeated incursions and invasions of Palestinian villages and towns, accompanied by field executions, random arrests, house demolitions, and closures of institutions, are not merely punitive measures, but tools within a strategic plan targeting the dismantling of the Palestinian social fabric and weakening any environment conducive to resistance.

Al-Daik points out that there are more than a thousand checkpoints in the West Bank, which has made movement between Palestinian cities nearly cut off.

He notes that Israel is simultaneously working to enhance the role of settlers and form organized militias such as "Price Tag" and "Hilltop Youth," arming them with direct support from National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, as part of a project aimed at imposing settlers' control over the land, in coordination with the occupation army.

Al-Daik asserts that what is happening in Tubas is not related to pursuing resistance fighters or carrying out military operations, but is part of a policy of re-engineering the geopolitical reality in the region, given Tubas's border location and its value as the food basket of the West Bank and its proximity to Jenin, which has been a center of resistance action in recent years.

He believes that the occupation seeks to subjugate this sensitive area through systematic operations that reshape Israeli control over it.

He refers to the closure of the offices of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees in Ramallah and Hebron, considering it a "direct assault on Palestinian sovereignty," especially since these institutions are located in areas classified as (A) under Palestinian administrative and security control according to the Oslo Accords.

He affirms that this measure represents a "slap" to Palestinian legitimacy and to the European Union, the United States, and the countries sponsoring the political process, emphasizing that Israel does not place the political solution