Jenin; a model for resistance

Constructing an appropriate reading of the goals of the Israeli aggression against Jenin, mainly on its camp and its timing, requires that we expand on two issues that should not be overlooked. It can be said that they were also approached by Israel: the first is the nature of the forms of resistance to the occupation and its military mechanism, which Palestinian factions have developed recently, and Jenin was a witness to it. The second is the repercussions of this resistance with regard to the territories occupied since 1967, and not only to them.

Before that, it must be mentioned that this aggression, even according to Israeli readings, was almost inevitable against the background of these two issues that refer to the events, facts and experiences facing the occupying state in the West Bank, and the experiences that the resistance hoards and has a profound impact on its perception. itself, on the one hand, and its message to the Palestinians and Arabs in general, as well as to the whole world, on the other hand.

And by the admission of many Israeli military analysts, led by the analyst at Yedioth Ahronoth website, Ron Ben-Yishai, the Palestinian resistance in Jenin has developed methods of fighting that allow it to confront the campaigns of what is described as "deep incursion", which are carried out by the Israeli army, the Shin Bet and the special units of the Border Guard. The resistance monitored the axes of vehicles carrying Israeli forces from the field as a point of weakness, and planted explosive devices in very large quantities along those axes, with the aim of inflicting a heavy price on those forces.

Initially, these devices were made of explosive materials of local production, with light weights and low power. However, in recent months, they have developed into large packages, each weighing more than 20 kilograms of explosive materials, and are activated remotely via mobile phones. The Israeli army noticed this phenomenon a short time ago, and began fortifying the base of military vehicles used in operations inside the Jenin camp and the northern West Bank.

And the explosive devices in the northern West Bank are planted, not only on the sides of the road, but also in places where it is possible to dig in the middle of dirt roads, and they limit the freedom of movement of the occupation army, as was proven during the Israeli military operation that took place on the 19th of last month (last June). In the Jenin sector, it was described as having "faced new security complications and challenges."

Regarding this process, in particular, it was pointed out that planting the explosives is a process that is difficult to carry out secretly, as it requires moving the explosive, digging a hole, planting it, then covering it, and making sure that its activation system will receive the signal. Despite all of this, the operation was carried out without the intelligence gathering services of the Israeli army being able to discover it and know in advance about it, and without specifying its location to the forces.

Day after day, there are frequent Israeli reports about the absence of intelligence information in Israel, which, in its opinion, prevents it from carrying out a "systematic and deep attack" on the infrastructure of the resistance, in addition to some hinting that this absence makes the leaders of the security establishment confused about what should be the next event. .

The second issue is no less important, as this model of resistance related to the city of Jenin and its camp plays an effective role in modifying the expectations that the Palestinians build on confronting the occupation and resisting its mighty military machine, which prompted several Israeli military analysts to acknowledge that the situation has changed, and that Jenin creates a model to follow and impose Developing other appropriate Israeli methods of action, of course on the military-security level.

It is possible that this model will extend to other areas in the West Bank, which can be seen clearly in Nablus, and in a more limited way in Tulkarem and Jericho, which may lead, in a foreseeable future, to the emergence of a different reality in which there are many threats to Israel in a relatively short time. This matter exacerbates the dilemma of the occupation, as soon as it shakes its submission to a status quo, during which a state of calm prevailed in the West Bank and a decline in resistance operations. About "Arab 48"