On Tuesday, Israel launched a major invasion of Jenin and declared Operation Iron Wall, designed to crush the anti-occupation armed groups in the northern West Bank. However, it is not acting alone and is conducting this major assault with the full complicity of the Palestinian Authority security forces as their proxy.
Days prior to the announcement that a Gaza-Israel ceasefire had been reached, on January 14, Israel launched three drone strikes in the Jenin Camp, killing six and injuring around a dozen others. This came on the same day that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Jenin Brigades resistance group reached an agreement to end the 40-day-long PA siege on the refugee camp.
Despite the deal between the two sides, the PA refused to honor its side of the bargain and continued to besiege Jenin Camp and arrest anti-occupation fighters.
On January 21, only two days after the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire, the occupation forces announced the beginning of a major operation in the northern West Bank. On Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz named the operation “Iron Wall” and vowed to implement the lessons learned “from the method of repeated raids in Gaza”...
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